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*"The Sun" or "[[Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)]]", a song by Tom Glazer, popularized by They Might Be Giants |
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*"The Sun", a song by Pop/Rock band Maroon 5 from their album [[Songs about Jane]]. |
*"The Sun", a song by Pop/Rock band Maroon 5 from their album [[Songs about Jane]]. |
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*[[The Sun (FanFan album]], an album by [[FanFan]]. |
*[[The Sun (FanFan album)]], an album by [[FanFan]]. |
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Look up sun in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sun or The Sun may refer to:
- The Sun, in astronomy, the star in our solar system
- Articles related to that star and its uses also include:
- List of Solar Cycles
- List of Solar System bodies formerly regarded as planets
- Formation and evolution of the Solar System
- The Sun in human culture
- Solar deity
- Sun (astrology), for its astrological significance
- Sun Microsystems, a computer system, storage and software company
- A parent star of another solar system as well
- The Sun (Tarot card), a trump or "Major Arcana" card
- The Sun (film), 2005 film about Emperor Hirohito meeting General Douglas MacArthur
- "The Sun", the name of a public house
- Sun, a traditional Japanese measure of length, corresponding to the Chinese cun
- the Phoenix Suns
Newspapers
- The Sun (newspaper), a British tabloid, the largest English-language newspaper by circulation
- The Sun Daily, a Chinese language-newspaper in Hong Kong
- The Sun (Lowell), a newspaper in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
- The Sun (Hummelstown), a newspaper in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Sun (Malaysia), a major English-language newspaper in Malaysia
- The Sun (San Bernardino), a daily newspaper in San Bernardino, California, USA
- Sun (supermarket tabloid), a United States supermarket tabloid
- Sun Herald, a daily newspaper in the Gulf Coast of the United States
- The Baltimore Sun, a major broadsheet newspaper in Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Kitsap Sun, a daily newspaper in Bremerton, Washington, USA
- The New York Sun, a broadsheet newspaper in New York City, USA
- Vancouver Sun, a daily newspaper in British Columbia, Canada
- Chicago Sun-Times, a daily newspaper in Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Herald Sun, a newspaper in Melbourne, Australia
- The Sun-Herald, a Sunday tabloid newspaper in Sydney, Australia
- The Sun Magazine, a nonprofit literary magazine at UNC-Chapel Hill
- The Sun (Sheridan), a newspaper covering Sheridan, Oregon, USA
- The Las Vegas Sun, a daily newspaper in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Historical newspapers
- The Sun News-Pictorial, a former tabloid in Melbourne, merged with The Herald to become The Herald Sun
- The Sun (Rangoon) (Thuriya), a Burmese language newspaper published from 1915 to 1954
- The New York Sun (historical), a newspaper unrelated to the present-day New York Sun
Canadian newspapers owned by Sun Media
- Calgary Sun of Calgary, Alberta
- Edmonton Sun of Edmonton, Alberta
- Ottawa Sun of Ottawa, Ontario
- Toronto Sun of Toronto, Ontario
- Winnipeg Sun of Winnipeg, Manitoba
Fictional newspapers
- The Sun, a tabloid newspaper in One Life To Live
Other organizations, companies, and products
- Connecticut Sun, a Women's National Basketball Association team
- Sunoco, The Sun Company, previously the Sun Oil Company of Ohio
- Sun (cleaning product), for use in Dishwashers
- The Sun (insurance), a company founded in 1710, now part of Royal & SunAlliance
- Sunstone Circuits, a PCB manufacturer
- Sun Media
- The Sun (magazine)
- Soul of the Ultimate Nation, or Soul of the Ultimate Nation, is a MMORPG game developed and published by Webzen.
- Sun Microsystems, an IT company
People named Sun
- Sun (surname), a Chinese family name
- Ho Yeow Sun, a Singaporean pop singer famous in Asia and the United States
- Sun Myung Moon
- Sun Jihai (b. 1977), a Chinese soccer player
- Stefanie Sun (b. 1978), a Singaporean pop singer
- Sun Tzu (6th century BC), a military general of the State of Wu and author of The Art of War
- Sun Wukong, often referred to as the Monkey King, central character of the Journey to the West
- Sun Yat-sen (1866 – 1925), Chinese revolutionary leader
- Zhi-Wei Sun (b. 1965), Chinese mathematician
- Sun Ra (1914 - 1993), jazz musician
Prominent figures during the Three Kingdoms period
- Sun Jian (155 – 191), military general loyal to the emperor of the Han Dynasty
- Sun Ce (175 – 200), son of Sun Jian and a rising warlord in southeastern China
- Sun Quan (182 – 252), younger brother of Sun Ce and the first emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
- Sun Xiu (235 – 264), third emperor of the Kingdom of Wu
- Sun Hao, final emperor of Wu
- Sun Liang, emperor of Wu
- Sun Shangxiang (184 – ?), daughter of Sun Jian, married to Liu Bei (founder of the Kingdom of Shu)
Fictional characters
- Sun Kwon of the TV series Lost
- Aeryn Sun and her mother Xhalax Sun of the TV series Farscape
- The Sun, a boss from The House of the Dead III
- Spinel Sun from Cardcaptor Sakura
Vehicle classes
- Sun class, a class of cruise ships
- GWR Sun Class, a class of steam locomotives
Music
- The Sun (band), a rock and roll group from Columbus, Ohio
- Tanel Padar & The Sun, a rock band from Estonia
- Sun Records, a record label
- Sun International Records, a record label
- "Sun", a song by Lamb from their album Between Darkness and Wonder
- Sun (R&B band), band that was active mainly during the late 1970s
- Sunn O))), a band whose name is pronounced 'sun'
- The Sun (Cat Empire album), a 2002 album by The Cat Empire
- The Sun (Fridge album), a 2007 album by Fridge
- "The Sun" or "Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is a Mass of Incandescent Gas)", a song by Tom Glazer, popularized by They Might Be Giants
- "The Sun", a song by Pop/Rock band Maroon 5 from their album Songs about Jane.
- The Sun (FanFan album), an album by FanFan.
Acronym, code
- The SUN study (Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra) : Spanish scientific epidemiological research.
- Scientific Users Nineteenhundred (SUN), the users group of ICT/ICL 1900 Computers
- SUN-TV (株式会社サンテレビジョン), a TV station in Japan
- CKXT-TV, a TV station in Toronto, Ontario which is branded as SUN TV
- Friedman Memorial Airport
- Sunset Railway (reporting mark SUN)
- In mathematics, SU(n) denotes the special unitary group of degree n.