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At one point William Herschel postulated that the sun was actually habited by beings who were able to withstand the sun's immense heat and were actually protected by "a heavy cloud canopy from the intolerable glare of the upper luminoius region".
This is in no way a criticsim of the great astronomer who laid the foundations for what we know of today as the NGC, but an observation of what can be speculated upon or philosophised about without all the information.
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