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sunlike

  • a word derived from sun.
    sun
    noun
    the star that is the central body of the earth's solar system, around which the planets revolve and from which they receive light and heat: its mean distance from the earth is about 93 million miles (150 million km), its diameter about 864,000 miles (1.4 million km), and its mass about 330,000 times that of the earth; its period of surface rotation is about 25 days at its equator but longer at higher latitudes.

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Now, scientists reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have designed an LED so slender it’s nearly as thin as paper, yet it emits a cozy, sunlike glow.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2025

For example, consider a recent study revealing that a nearby sunlike star is orbiting a small black hole.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 16, 2022

Called Kepler-1708 b-i, the moon appears to be a gas-dominated object, slightly smaller than Neptune, orbiting a Jupiter-sized planet around a sunlike star—an unusual but not wholly unprecedented planet-moon configuration.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 13, 2022

None is a true analog to our planet, an Earth 2.0 orbiting a sunlike star, Dr. Mather said.

From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2021

“And there’s a daisy,” I said, throwing a circlet of the white flowers with their sunlike centers.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein