Any practiced attendee of the Academy Awards will tell you that the best time to glide across the red carpet is at the end of arrivals time, when the setting sun casts a favorable light on those pesky wrinkles and unsightly bulges.

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After that it is expected to become a red giant, as the hydrogen that presently comprises it is exhausted and the sun switches to burning helium instead.

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Each is home to half a dozen lolling bathers, their blissed-out, parboiled faces as red as the setting sun behind.

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But a clear, cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more easily than they do red light.

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To make the fight fair, he decrees that the match should take place on his home planet, Bodace, which is orbited by a red sun (which temporarily robs Superman of his powers).

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