This makes it as massive as the sun, and no wonder: it's the corpse of a star that once looked very much like the sun, lying nine hundred or so light-years from Earth.
We collected information about various non-pharmacological measures adopted by the patients during headache that included avoidance of certain food items that precipitated headache, use of wet towel or cold pack over head, avoiding the sun, lying quiet, tying a tight cloth around the forehead, traditional head and neck massage and local application of use of medicated oil.
The sun lay across her shoulders like a heavy cape of molten lava as she slowly descended the worn concrete steps into the cavelike depths.
This was the climax of the trip: before us, splendidly illuminated by the sun, lay the savagely wild jumble of the Himalaya's finest peaks, including Everest.
ROTTING bodies, bloated by the tropical sun, lay in the streets of Kingston this week, as soldiers patrolled the deathly-quiet streets of Jamaica's capital after an outbreak of violence on the island had left 25 people dead.
Then, by observing the stars rising in the east just after sunset it was possible to know which were precisely opposite in the sky, where the Sun lay at that time.
Down below, in full sun, lay an admittedly raw expanse: tiny blueberry and bearberry plants were just taking hold in the sandy pinelands, and the barren edge of the pond was still waiting for the pitcher plants, sphagnum mosses and other bog-lovers that Mr. Lorimer has been nursing lovingly in the greenhouse.
Its perihelion, or closest point to the sun, lay at 76 AU, beyond the Kuiper belt and far outside the influence of Neptune's gravity.
Groombridge 1830 (left inset), a main-sequence star like the sun, lies just 30 light-years from Earth; the new observations reveal that it has a diameter two-thirds that of the sun and a surface temperature of 4820 K, nearly a thousand degrees cooler.
The late-afternoon sun lies due west above the mountains.
And it is appropriate because within us, within the very blood in our veins, as children of the sun, lies the potential for greatness.
