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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

It’s actually a triple star system, with two sunlike stars that orbit each other and a third star, called Proxima Centauri, that is much farther out.

From Scientific American • Oct. 6, 2023

Meanwhile, thanks primarily to NASA’s Kepler space telescope and its discovery that almost all sunlike stars have Earth-like planets, astrobiology has become one of the most fertile fields in science.

From Scientific American • Sep. 14, 2022

It orbits a sunlike star 700 light-years from here, at only one-eighth the distance between Pluto and our sun — way too hot for any life as we know it.

From New York Times • Aug. 26, 2022

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

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein