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Schematic diagram of the orbits of the fictional planets Vulcan, Counter-Earth, and Phaëton in relation to the five innermost planets of the Solar System.. Fictional planets of the Solar System have been depicted since the 1700s—often but not always corresponding to hypothetical planets that have at one point or another been seriously proposed by real-world astronomers, though commonly ...
Some fictional planets are described as orbiting real stars; [2] [8] a 2024 article in the Journal of Science Communication analysed a sample of 142 fictional exoplanets, of which nearly a third fulfilled this criterion, and found "an absence of influence of whether or not the planet setting is in a real star system on other worldbuilding ...
An extraterrestrial life form consisting of a vast, seven hundred billion ton "colloidal envelope" stretching across the entire planet, it regularly forms numerous transient structures on its surface, such as continent-wide crystalline "symmetriads" that dissipate just as quickly as they form, which have been cataloged by scientists on the ...
العربية; Azərbaycanca; Беларуская; Беларуская (тарашкевіца) Български; Català; Чӑвашла; Čeština ...
The Sun received comparatively little specific attention in early science fiction; [2] prior to the late 1800s, when Mars became the most popular celestial object in fiction, the Sun was a distant second to the Moon. [3] A large proportion of the works that nevertheless did focus on the Sun portrayed it as having inhabitants.
Clicking on a planet leads to the article about its depiction in fiction. The earliest use of the planet Venus as the primary setting in a work of fiction was Voyage à Venus (Voyage to Venus, 1865) by Achille Eyraud , [1] [2]: 6 though it had appeared centuries earlier in works depicting multiple locations in the Solar System such as ...
Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930 and has made comparatively sporadic appearances in fiction since then; [1] [2] [3] in the catalogue of early science fiction works compiled by E. F. Bleiler and Richard Bleiler in the 1998 reference work Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years, Pluto only appears in 21 (out of 1,835) works, [4] compared to 194 for Mars and 131 for Venus. [5]
This category is for the fictional use of real planets and dwarf planets. For completely fictional planets see: Category:Fictional planets. Subcategories.