History Main / SolarCPR

* At the end of Arle's story in ''[[VideoGame/PuyoPuyo Puyo Puyo SUN]]'', to revive the sun when it stops glowing, [[spoiler:Carbuncle appears out of nowhere and shoots a laser beam at it]].

* Implied in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', where it's said that if the Hogfather (Discworld's answer to SantaClaus, who in this case is actually a minor god who used to be associated with more... primal midwinter celebrations) isn't saved, the sun won't rise on Hogswatch Day. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Death meant that instead, "[[AC:A mere ball of glowing gas would have illuminated the world]]". Or in other words, humanity's sense of wonder and imagination would be snuffed out.]]

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_straggler Blue stragglers]] are stars found in high-density regions as stellar clusters, especially globular ones, that are abnormally luminous and [[ExactlywhatItSaysOnTheTin bluer]] next to the majority of others there. The prefered explanations for their origin are either two smaller stars [[FusionDance merging]] and one small star sucking matter from another more evolved, in both cases sort of rejuvenating them.

Either through natural causes or galactic vandals who go around StarKilling [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] and profit, the local star is set to die; this usually involves ArtisticLicensePhysics even ''with'' liberal uses of {{Phlebotinum}}. [[labelnote:(Science!)]]Most people have no conception of how vast a sun is, nor what happens during a star's life as a main-sequence star. Our sun is 30% brighter now than when the Earth formed, and some time in the next 0.5-1.1 billion years it will grow bright enough that the Earth will become uninhabitable in its current orbit. Said orbit, however, is projected to change, making Earth gradually veer ''further'' from the sun, allowing it to stay in the habitable zone for more time than originally predicted. In either case, our sun has billions of years left before it leaves the main sequence. And when it ''does'' leave the main sequence, it'll take tens of thousands of years to swell up into a red giant, so everyone will have plenty of warning. (A red giant isn't the same thing as a ''nova''. A nova requires a close-orbiting white dwarf to siphon material off a companion star; solitary stars like the sun cannot go nova. The sun is also not quite massive enough to ever go supernova.)[[/labelnote]] You can imagine the desperation a planetary civilization will feel when it's ''their'' turn to see their sun die. Cue an attempt at Solar CPR. A [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] civilization may develop a MagicAntidote or solar-scale WorldHealingWave that can stop this from happening (or at least discover a group of aliens who do).

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]]: Earth's sun is held back from expanding into a red giant for five billion years, until the funds ran out. [[ApocalypseWow At which point they sell tickets to people who want to watch]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.

-> ''"When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -- and then a spark, will pop into existence, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again. Detonation beyond all imagining -- the Big Bang on a small scale. A new star born out of a dying one. I think it will be beautiful..."''

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* In ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'', several monoliths engulf Jupiter, cause nuclear fusion and turn it into a sun to provide heat for an alien race on Europa.

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* In ''TheWorldAtTheEndOfTime'', by Frederik Pohl, when star formation is halting across the Universe Wan-To, the entity described there [[StarfishAliens who lives inside stars]], forms new ones using the available gas. Later, he's described to have created ''two galaxies'' when all the others are beginning to fade out.

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* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', Earth's sun is held back from expanding into a red giant for five billion years, until the funds ran out.
** [[ApocalypseWow At which point they sell tickets to people who want to watch]] TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt
** And when [[spoiler: the explosion of the [=TARDIS=]]] causes every star in the universe to go nova, Earth survives because a ''replacement'' sun ([[spoiler: the time-frozen exploding [=TARDIS=]]]) provides a substitute until the damage can be undone.
* Variation in ''Series/StargateSG1'' "Red Sky" when a sun is tainted by heavy metals accidentally introduced to it by the passage of a Stargate wormhole, and the team have to reverse the process by adding even heavier elements to bind the first lot. Needless to say, the usual scale problems are very obvious here.
** It's strongly implied at the end of the episode that their "adding heavier elements" trick actually DIDN'T work, and the Asgard just used the attempt as a distraction so they could fix the sun themselves without the Goa'uld being able to prove they did it (such an action would've been forbidden by the Protected Planets Treaty).
* One of the four TV movies that made up "season 1" of ''Series/{{Lexx}}'', entitled ''Supernova'', featured the ancient, and at that point uninhabited, home planet of the Brunnen-G, in a system of binary suns. A huge automated "stabilizing" device on the planet kept the mutual orbit of the two suns stable, and when it is shut down, the orbit decays and the two stars collide with a cataclysmic explosion.
* A good part of the final season of ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' deals with repairing and restarting fusion in the star system's artificial star.
* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'': ''The Verse In Numbers'' document says there's a method of {{Terraforming}} called helioforming that turns gas giants into protostars to give their colonised moons adequate heat.

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* Implied in ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}'', where it's said that if the Hogfather (Discworld's answer to SantaClaus, who in this case is actually a minor god who used to be associated with more... primal midwinter celebrations) isn't saved, the sun won't rise on Hogswatch Day. As it turns out, [[spoiler: Death meant that instead, "[[AC: A mere ball of glowing gas would have illuminated the world]]". Or in other words, humanity's sense of wonder and imagination would be snuffed out.]]

* In ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'', recruiting Tali has her investigating a sun which is dying too quickly. Unfortunately, this became an example of WhatHappenedToTheMouse and was never brought up in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' at all.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpartakusAndTheSunBeneathTheSea'' was an old French animated series in which the heroes come from a civilization who live underground AfterTheEnd, but are forced to journey to the surface world for help after their artificial sun Tehra starts dying.

* ''SpartakusAndTheSunBeneathTheSea'' was an old French animated series in which the heroes come from a civilization who live underground AfterTheEnd, but are forced to journey to the surface world for help after their artificial sun Tehra starts dying.

-> ''"When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -and then a spark, will pop into existence, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again. Detonation beyond all imagining - the big bang on a small scale. A new star born out of a dying one. I think it will be beautiful..."''

* In the end of ''[[OsuTatakaeOuendan Moero! Nekketsu Rythm Damashii! Osu! Tatakae! Ouendan! 2]]'' [[spoiler:the sun dies, and the two rival cheer squads act together to raise everyone's spirit level enough to resurrect it.]]

Either through natural causes or galactic vandals who go around StarKilling [[ForTheEvulz for fun]] and profit, the local star is set to die; this usually involves ArtisticLicensePhysics even ''with'' liberal uses of {{Phlebotinum}}. [[labelnote:(Science!)]]Most people have no conception of how vast a sun is, nor what happens during a star's life as a main-sequence star. Our sun is 30% brighter now than when the Earth formed, and some time in the next 0.5-1.1 billion years it will grow bright enough that the Earth will become uninhabitable in its current orbit. Said orbit, however, is projected to change, making Earth gradually veer ''further'' from the sun, allowing it to stay in the habitable zone for more time than originally predicted. In either case, our sun has billions of years left before it leaves the main sequence (and it's not quite massive enough to ever go nova).[[/labelnote]] You can imagine the desperation a planetary civilization will feel when it's ''their'' turn to see their sun die. Cue an attempt at Solar CPR. A [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien sufficiently advanced]] civilization may develop a MagicAntidote or solar-scale WorldHealingWave that can stop this from happening (or at least discover a group of aliens who do).

* In ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', Blue Lanterns can rejuvenate dying stars with the Hope of those on a nearby planet; the process turns the star blue, which is implied to mean it has been made young again.

-> ''When a Stellar Bomb is triggered, very little will happen at first -and then a spark, will pop into existence, and it will hang for an instant, hovering in space and then, it will split into two, and those will split again, and again, and again. Detonation beyond all imagining - the big bang on a small scale. A new star born out of a dying one. I think it will be beautiful...''
-->-- '''Capa''' - ''Film/{{Sunshine}}''

* During the ''[[{{Mystara}} Wrath of the Immortals]]'' StoryArc, the player characters have the opportunity to help end the Week Of No Magic that afflicts the world. One result of their success is that it revives the internal sun of the Hollow World, which had shut down in the absence of magic.

* An entire episode of ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' is based around this. The sun is repaired by changing a lightbulb.