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Hein  ·  4453 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Amateur planet hunters find a planet with four suns.

Asimov once wrote a short story (I think it was called "Eclipse" or "Sunset") about a planet with many suns that had people on it. Once in few thousand years the civilization would destroy itself because in a rare conjunction the suns would be eclipsed by their moon. For people who didn't know darkness the only way to make light was to burn everything.