But the sun was probably born in a cluster with many other stars.
Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency.
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The setting seems stark in the midday sun, but when the sun drops and the light shifts, a form of alchemy transforms the scene into one of sensual beauty.
The sidewalks of the town were gray in the early morning and at night, but the noon sun put a glaze on them, so that the cement burned and glittered like glass.
But now the sun is up, and they're facing the scorn of Citi and federal regulators.
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He did find the Norwegian summer to be cold compared to Delhi, but the constant sun kept him in good spirits.
But despite the sun and sand, he has decided that he's in the wrong place to build a new life.
But after the sun goes down, geishas recede behind closed doors and teahouses shut down for the night, Kyoto offers spectacular nighttime charms.
But today the sun came out and British summer showed its best.
But now The Sun's owner Rupert Murdoch -- in one tweet -- has raised the specter of a world without Page 3.
But when the sun came out, a golden light would transform the scene, revealing the details of cliffs, streams, clumps of woodland and - most significantly - herds of reindeer.
The Mayo Clinic's statement didn't say anything about his previous whereabouts but the Chicago Sun-Times said that on Wednesday he left Tucson, Arizona, and flew to Minnesota in a private plane.
The Italian physicist concluded in the 1600s that the sun did not, in fact, travel around the earth, but that the earth orbited the sun, bucking Catholic logic that the earth was the center of the universe.
The planet's host star is dimmer and cooler than our sun, but the planet is also 15% closer than we are to the sun.
The next morning we looked out of the window and thought it had snowed but it was the sun shining on the floodwater.
Once there, a seaside picnic costs no more than the price of a fresh crusty baguette and a hunk of gooey Camembert, but the sublime feeling of the sun on your face and the sound of the waves crashing nearby is what dreams are made of.
Initially, it is a soft, foul-smelling matter that floats on the ocean but through exposure to the sun and the salt water over years it turns into a smooth lump of compact rock which feels waxy and has a sweet smell.
But up here the sun shines on the glacier, and fresh snow glistens in the intense, equatorial light.
But even as the sun was rising on the meeting rooms this morning, chaos was breaking out in New York.
All true - but this week the Sun has reminded everyone why political leaders would rather have it on their side than not.
But Adebayor told The Sun newspaper that he was dismayed at being snubbed by Arsenal players before the start of the English Premier League clash at Eastlands.
It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
By day he was guided by the rising and setting sun but also by the ocean herself, the mother of life.
This prevents the pope getting uncomfortably hot when the sun is shining but also ensures the glass doesn't steam up in high humidity.
These things happen with memory, of course, but the newspaper, the website, The Sun, News International, did not in fact do this.
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But the reason that they come near the sun at all is because their original orbits, which kept them in the distant realm of the Oort cloud, had been somehow disturbed.
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