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Overview

The notion that there might be inhabited planets near stars other than the Sun may be traced at least as far back as Giordano Bruno, who, in his De l'infinito universo e mondi ("Concerning the Infinite Universe and Worlds", 1584), declared that "Innumerable suns exist; innumerable Earths revolve about these suns ... Living beings inhabit these worlds". Allusions to inhabitants of other stars' planetary systems remained rare in literature for many centuries afterwards. One of these is Voltaire's Micromégas (1752), which features a traveller from Sirius. An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is a planet beyond the Solar System. ... Giordano Bruno Giordano Bruno (1548, Nola – February 17, 1600, Rome) was an Italian philosopher, priest, cosmologist, and occultist. ... Sol redirects here. ... Green people redirects here. ... For other uses, see Voltaire (disambiguation). ... Micromégas is a short story written in the Eighteenth Century by the French philosopher and satirist Voltaire. ... An artists impression of Sirius A and Sirius B. Sirius A is the bigger star, Sirius B the smaller white dwarf. ...

As science fiction became established in the early twentieth century, destinations such as the Moon, Mars, Venus or other bodies within the Solar System became stereotyped. Authors began to invoke a variety of mechanisms for superluminal travel and placed their stories on planets in systems around other stars, a move giving them freedom to construct more exotic fictional worlds and themes. This tendency became predominant once exploration of the Solar System showed that it was increasingly unlikely that any highly-developed form of extraterrestrial life existed in the Solar System. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999 in the... This article is about the Moon as the subject of and inspiration for creative works. ... Fictional representations of Mars have been popular for over a century. ... In science fiction stories of the 1920s-1960s, the planet Venus was frequently described as a tropical planet, hot and misty, covered with jungle, swamps, and oceans. ... The Solar system and its various bodies (planets, asteroids, moons, etc. ... Faster-than-light (also superluminal or FTL) communications and travel are staples of the science fiction genre. ... This article is about the astronomical term. ... An artists concept of a planetary system A planetary system consists of the various non-stellar objects orbiting a star such as planets, moons, asteroids, meteoroids, comets, and cosmic dust. ... Planets in science fiction are fictional planets that appear in various media, especially those of the science fiction genre, as story-settings or depicted locations. ... Green people redirects here. ...

Although some of the stars named in works of science fiction are purely imaginary, many authors and artists have preferred to use the names of real stars which are well known to astronomers, either through being notably bright in the sky as seen from Earth or being relatively near to Earth. Bright stars can be bright because they produce more light, because they are closer to us, or both. ... This list of the nearest stars to Earth is ordered by increasing distance out to a maximum of 5 parsecs (16. ...

Some of these stars appear to be unsuitable for planets with advanced life, assuming that Earth is typical. The solar system was already a billion years old before life appeared on Earth. Complex life appeared three billion years later, in the 'Cambrian explosion'. Inherently bright stars like Sirius and Vega have total life-times of only about 1 billion years, so they are relatively unsuitable for development of complex life. Red giant stars are a relatively short phase near the end of a star's lifetime and are some 100 times brighter than the original star. Except for a few unusually close stars, those stars which are not intrinsically so bright as to raise this short lifetime constraint, appear so inconspicuous in the Earth's sky that they lack the proper names that would make them attractive to science fiction authors. Geological time put in a diagram called a geological clock, showing the relative lengths of the eons of the Earths history. ... For the definition, see Life. ... The Cambrian explosion is the geologically kukko sudden appearance in the fossil record of the ancestors of familiar animals, starting about 542 million years ago (Mya). ... According to the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, a red giant is a large non-main sequence star of stellar classification K or M; so-named because of the reddish appearance of the cooler giant stars. ...

General uses of star names

Stars may be referred to in fictional works for their metaphorical or mythical associations, but not as locations in space or centers of planetary systems:

• Oedipus the King, play by Sophocles. The Corinthian Shepherd references 'the rising of Arcturus' as a time marker while trying to jog the memory of the Theban Shepherd about their acquaintance prior to the Theban's entrusting the child Oedipus to the Corinthian rather than killing him as he had been instructed.
• Polaris, short story by H. P. Lovecraft. Describes a lost polar civilization on which the star Polaris always shines.
• Doorways in the Sand, novel by Roger Zelazny. Phecda along with the other stars of Ursa Major is mentioned during the protagonists' jaunts atop the steeples of Old Europe.
• Children of Dune, novel by Frank Herbert. Fomalhaut is called Foum al-Hout, the polar star of the south.
• The Truelove (1992) the fifteenth in the series of Aubrey-Maturin novels by Patrick O'Brian. Jack Aubrey establishes his ship's longitude in the Pacific ocean by taking a lunar distance on Fomalhaut

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List of planetary systems in fiction

Planetary systems appearing in fiction are:

36 Ophiuchi

• Dune and other novels in the Dune universe by Frank Herbert. 36 Ophiuchi B is orbited by the planet Giedi Prime.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. 36 Ophiuchi is a mining system. The population of the system is centered around the first moon of 36 Ophiuchi C.

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40 Eridani

• Star Trek film and television franchise. 40 Eridani A is the location of the planet Vulcan, home of the Vulcan species. Although this was never stated on any TV show or film, both the authorized Star Trek book Star Trek: Star Charts and Gene Roddenberry^[1] give this location. In addition, Commander Tucker's statement in Star Trek: Enterprise that Vulcan is 16 light years from Earth supports this as 40 Eridani A is 16.39ly from Sol.[1]

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47 Ursae Majoris

• Coyote series of novels by Allen Steele. Much of the action of the series takes place on Coyote, a fictional habitable moon of 47 Ursae Majoris b, which is given the name Bear.

47 Ursae Majoris (abbreviated 47 UMa) is a 5th magnitude yellow dwarf star in the constellation of Ursa Major. ... Coyote (2002) is science fiction author Allen Steele’s novel of interstellar exploration and settlement. ... Allen Mulherin Steele, Jr. ... Understanding planetary habitability is partly an extrapolation of the Earths conditions, as it is the only planet currently known to support life. ... A natural satellite or moon is a celestial body that orbits a planet or smaller body, which is called the primary. ... 47 Ursae Majoris b is an extrasolar planet orbiting the Sun-like star 47 Ursae Majoris. ...

61 Cygni

• The Foundation Series, novels by Isaac Asimov. 61 Cygni has one of the planets where the human race might have originated, mentioned by the Imperial politician Lord Dorwin.
• Time and Again (1951), novel by Clifford D. Simak. 61 Cygni is a mysterious system whose planets are impossible to approach.
• Mission of Gravity, novel, and other stories (1953-) by Hal Clement. 61 Cygni A is the sun around which the planet Mesklin revolves.
• Danny Dunn and the Voice from Space (1967), children's book. A modulated radio signal coming from 61 Cygni turns out to be a pictogram from aliens.
• Revelation Space stories (2000-) by Alastair Reynolds. 61 Cygni (or 'Swan') is the sun of the planet Sky's Edge.
• Blake's 7, television program. The region around 61 Cygni is the only area near Earth that has not been surveyed, since it is home to an alien race which is hostile to mankind, going so far as to release a virus on a Federation base via a piece of space debris.
• Earth & Beyond, online role-playing game. 61 Cygni is a system in the outskirts of the universe.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. 61 Cygni has a terraformed planet (named Scott) that is notorious for its harsh, icy environment. Surprisingly, it has a successful tourism industry to go along with its renowned fishing industry. Its pool of tourists is derived from the populations of nearby mining systems, who would never otherwise experience a true outdoor environment where it not for the planet Scott being nearby. 61 Cygni is also a member of the Federation.

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61 Ursae Majoris

• Home world of the Kzinti in Larry Niven's Known Space stories.^[2]

61 Ursae Majoris is an orange-yellow main sequence dwarf star in the constellation Ursa Major. ... The Kzinti (singular Kzin) are a fictional, very warlike and bloodthirsty race of felinoid aliens in Larry Nivens Known Space series. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Known Space is the fictional setting of several science fiction novels and short stories written by author Larry Niven. ...

70 Ophiuchi

• Dune and other novels in the Dune universe by Frank Herbert. Sikun is the third planet from 70 Ophiuchi.
• The Ophiuchi Hotline, novel by John Varley. Humanity survives with the aid of a technology derived from information in the Ophiuchi Hotline, a radio signal apparently beamed from the star 70 Ophiuchi.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. This system has a mining and heavy industry based economy. For a mining system, its population of hundreds of thousands of people is impressive.

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107 Piscium

• Absolution Gap, novel by Alastair Reynolds. The 107 Piscium system has a gas giant named Haldora and a habitable moon named Hela, which is colonized by humans in the 27th and 28th centuries.

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Achernar (Alpha Eridani)

• Stories by Jack Vance. Achernar appears in fourteen of Vance's stories, most of the time as a reference to the star.^{[citation needed]}
• Tékumel, books and games by M. A. R. Barker. Achernar is the solar system from which originate the nonhuman species called the Ahoggyá, or Knobbed Ones.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. Achernar (spelled Achenar) is the capital system of the Empire and is thus the seat of the Emperor.

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Aldebaran

Main article: Aldebaran in fiction

Aldebaran from the Arabic (الدبران al-dabarān) meaning the follower, (α Tau / α Tauri / Alpha Tauri) is the brightest star in the constellation Taurus and one of the brightest stars in the nighttime sky. ... Aldebaran (Alpha Tauri) is a large, bright orange star in the constellation Taurus which is frequently mentioned in works of science fiction: // Aldebaran is one of several stars mentioned in the Cthulhu Mythos, as somehow relating to the being or place named Hastur. ...

Alkalurops (Mu Boötis)

• Dune and other novels in the Dune universe by Frank Herbert. Ix is the ninth planet (hence its name) from the star Alkalurops (named Rodale in the Legends of Dune prequel novels) and is the pre-eminent source of high technology.

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Alnilam (Epsilon Orionis)

• Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964), film. Alnilam is the home of aliens in this movie.

Epsilon Orionis (ε Ori / ε Orionis) is a large blue star in the constellation of Orion. ... Robinson Crusoe on Mars is a 1964 science fiction film retelling of the classic novel by Daniel Defoe. ...

Alpha Centauri

Main article: Alpha Centauri in fiction

Alpha Centauri (α Cen / α Centauri, also known as Rigil Kentaurus), is the brightest star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Alpha Ceti

• "Space Seed'", episode of Star Trek (TOS) television series, and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, film. Ceti Alpha V (presumably the fifth planet from Alpha Ceti) was the planet on which Khan Noonian Singh and his crew were imprisoned.

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Alpha Hydri

• Alliance-Union universe created by C. J. Cherryh. Home star system of the Majat, an insectoid race that features prominently in the novel Serpent's Reach (1980).

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Altair

Main article: Altair in fiction

Altair (α Aql / α Aquilae / Alpha Aquilae / Atair ) is the brightest star in the constellation Aquila and the twelfth brightest star in the nighttime sky, at visual magnitude 0. ... Altair (Alpha Aquilae) is a bright white star in the constellation Aquila that features in science fiction: In the novel Sunstorm, a gas giant fifteen times the mass of Jupiter was launched by the Firstborn alien race from the Altair star system on a collision course with Earths Sun...

Antares (Alpha Scorpii)

• Dray Prescot series of novels by Kenneth Bulmer. A planet called Kregen orbiting Antares is the setting for this series.
• Star Trek film and television franchise:
  • "A Piece of the Action", episode of Star Trek (TOS) television series. Kirk fabricates a fictional card game called Fizzbin, allegedly played on Beta Antares IV, as a ruse to escape from his captors on Sigma Iotia II.
  • "Charlie X" and other episodes of Star Trek (TOS) television series. Lt. Uhura sings the romantic song "Beyond Antares".^[3]
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, film. Khan says that he will chase Admiral Kirk "around the [...] Antares Maelstrom".
• "Invasion of the Turtle Snatchers" (1989), episode of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated television series. The Earth is visited by a family from a fictional planet orbiting Antares. They call themselves "Antarians", and hate violence.
• Earth & Beyond, online role-playing game. Antares is mentioned.
• Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares, computer game. A conflict occurs between the "Orions" and the Antarans, who come from a planet called Antares.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. Hundreds of light-years away from populated space, this uninhabited system will remain unpopulated for the forseeable future as there are no planets orbiting either star within it.
• Antares trilogy of novels by Michael McCollum (Antares Dawn, Antares Passage, and Antares Victory). A futuristic human society, built on interstellar travel via wormholes, is disrupted when Antares becomes a supernova.
• In the Manga series Saint Seiya , The Scorpio Gold Saint Final Attack is called Antares

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Arcturus (Alpha Boötis)

• A Voyage to Arcturus (1920), novel by David Lindsay. Arcturus is an inhabited binary system.
• The Foundation Series, novels by Isaac Asimov. Arcturus is the capital of the Sirius Sector in the Galactic Empire.
• Alien From Arcturus (1956), expanded as Arcturus Landing (1978), is a science fiction novel written by Gordon R. Dickson describing an attempt to build a form of faster-than-light (FTL) propulsion.
• In the Doctor Who serial "The Curse of Peladon" (1972), Mars and Arcturus are depicted as old enemies.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979) series by Douglas Adams. The "Arcturan Megadonkey", "Arcturan Megafreighter" and other things with similar names presumably originate on a planet orbiting Arcturus. See Places in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy#Arcturus for more information.
• Marvel comics. The Arcturan system is binary and has at least four planets. It is inhabited by the Fortisquian alien species.
• Aliens (1986), film. Arcturus is a planet the space marines visited for a furlough.
• Spaced Invaders (1990), comic film. The Martians are fighting a war with the "Arcturians", from the Arcturus system.
• 2300 AD (1987), role-playing game. Arcturus is the location of Arcturus Station, a human research station invaded by the alien race of Kafers. In the module 'Mission Arcturus', players are bound to retake the station from the Aliens.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. A Federation member, this system was colonized in 2304. The system's habitable planet, Discovery, had its floura and flauna replaced with specimens imported from Earth around the same time period. Aside from the local belief that the red giant star will remain stable until the end of time, Arcturus is more infamous as being the home system of the deadly (and exceedingly popular) narcotic known as "Arcturan Megaweed".
• As part of his act, stand-up comic Bill Hicks often stated that he'd been visited by aliens from Arcturus while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs.
• Escape Velocity Nova, computer game by Ambrosia Software. The Arcturus System is a remote but well-travelled Federation system whose main income is from mining on the planet Fermia. It also features prominently in one of the minor mission strings.
• "Mass Effect", Xbox 360 game. Included in its backstory are details on Arcturus Station in the system of the same name; it acts as the hub of several mass relays and is one relay-jump from Earth and Sol.
• Project Arcturus, the result of which is a zero-point energy device in the Stargate universe. Project Arcturus is itself alluded to by Hank Scorpio in Simpsons episode 3F23, You Only Move Twice.

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Barnard's Star

• The Legion of Space (1934), novel by Jack Williamson. Barnard's Star is home to the ancient and dreadful race of the Medusae.
• The Black Corridor (1969), novel by Michael Moorcock. Barnard's Star is the destination for a group of people fleeing from social breakdown on Earth.
• Spacecraft 2000 to 2100 AD (1978), a Terran Trade Authority book by Stewart Cowley. A fictional planet near Barnard's Star is the location of a mysterious apparition that takes the form of an unidentified spacecraft.
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1979), novel by Douglas Adams. Barnard's Star is a way station for interstellar travellers.
• The star was a favorite of Robert L. Forward who featured it in several books. In The Flight of the Dragonfly (1984), rewritten as Rocheworld (1990), the Barnard's Star system contains one gas giant planet called "Gargantua" and a binary rocky planet system called "Rocheworld". Rocheworld included a dry rocky world named "Roche" and an ocean covered world named "Eau." The first manned interstellar mission is sent to Barnard's Star using a ship with a huge solar sail propelled by a laser. In Timemaster (Tor Books:1992), a billionaire makes a six year journey to the star system to open a wormhole in 2049. In Marooned on Eden, co-written in 1993 with his wife Margaret, the starship Prometheus takes a crew on a 40 year mission to Zuni, an inhabitable moon around Rocheworld's neighbor, Gargantua.
• Will Eisner's 1983 graphic novel, Life On Another Planet ^[4] depicts the reaction of the people of Earth after a signal is detected from intelligent beings on a planet orbiting Barnard's Star.
• Hyperion (1989-1997), novels by Dan Simmons. Barnard's Star had a farm-like habitable planet called Barnard's World which was the homeworld of Rachel and Sol Weintraub, the latter being one of the seven Hyperion pilgrims depicted in the first two books.
• The Garden of Rama (1991), novel by Arthur C. Clarke and Gentry Lee. There is a way station at Barnard's Star for the arrival and departure of massive cylindrical world ships.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. Barnard's Star is an important Federation industrial system with heavy mining and refining industry close to Earth and the other Core Systems. It proved to be the ideal beginners trading place—no pirates and high profits, exporting robots or computers to Sol and importing Luxury Goods from there could make you a millionaire in no time at all.
• In GURPS Traveller: Interstellar Wars, Barnard's Star is the first interstellar destination for Terran-made jump ships, who found a colony of humans from the Vilani Imperium on arrival.
• In the 1988 Walt Disney miniseries Earth Star Voyager, Barnard's Star (and its planet Demeter) was the destination point of the Earth Star Voyager. With the faster-than-light propulsion unit known as the Balman Drive, the round trip to the star and back was a 26-year voyage (factoring in a one-year exploration period of Demeter).

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Beta Aquilae

• SpaceWreck: Ghost Ships and Derelicts of Space (1979), a Terran Trade Authority book by Stewart Cowley. Beta Aquilae goes by its other name, Alshain, in the story "The Warworld of Alshain". The story is set on the fictional world named Alshain IV, a dying world, home to a once technological race, now reduced to cannibalistic savages living in the wreckage of their once great civilization.
• FreeSpace 2, computer game. The Beta Aquilae system is the location of the Beta Aquilae Convention (BETAC) that established the Galactic Terran-Vasudan Alliance.
• Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Eye of the Beholder" has set artwork in the form of computer screen graphics that establish planet Beta Aquilae II as Federation territory in the 24th century, home to a human population and a Starfleet training installation.

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Beta Aurigae

• Wheelworld (1981), novel by Harry Harrison. Beta Aurigae has a system of six planets, Halvmörk being the only habitable one. Contrary to astronomic facts Beta Aurigae is a white dwarf in this novel.
• "Turnabout Intruder", television episode of Star Trek: The Original Series. The crew of the Enterprise is en route to the Beta Aurigae system to study the system's two large binary components.

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Beta Corvi

• Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, computer game. The fourth planet in the system is a gas giant, home to a sentient species of incandescent gas bags called the Slylandro. They call their planet Source, and they live within a narrow band of the planet's atmosphere that they find habitable.

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Beta Hydri

• Stellvia of the Universe, anime series. The star Hydrus Beta is loosely based on Beta Hydri.
• A Canticle for Leibowitz, by Walter M. Miller, Jr. A planet of Beta Hydri is colonized by humanity in the far future and is mentioned briefly in the last third of the novel, Fiat Voluntas Tua, chapter 26.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. Beta Hydri is controlled by the Federation. It has two Earth-like planets (one of which is a terraformed world) and several billion people in residence. It is close to Imperial space and is thus a popular port to find the riskier Federal missions that involve incursions into the Empire. In First Encounters, Beta Hydri is involved in two hand-coded missions that occur early in the game.
• Daughters of Earth by Judith Merrill (Doubleday, 1969) has a crew of 500 on the starship Newhope colonizing the second planet, Uller, in 2091 after a 43-year voyage.
• Uller Uprising, novel by H. Beam Piper (Twayne, 1952). Uller, a colonized planet with silicon-based life forms, is in the Beta Hydri system.
• Time for the Stars by Robert Heinlein (Scribner's, 1956). Beta Hydri is one of the stars explored during the journey with the torchship Lewis and Clark.

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Beta Tauri (El Nath)

• Star Trek film and television franchise. In The Worlds of the Federation reference book, Beta Tauri is the parent star of Taurus II, the planet near the Murasaki 312 effect that is home to the Taurean anthropoids. A fictional starship was named for this star's traditional name (USS El Nath) by the Federation, according to the Star Fleet Technical Manual and the novel Time for Yesterday.

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Betelgeuse

Main article: Betelgeuse in fiction

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Canopus (Alpha Carinae)

• Dune and other novels in the Dune universe by Frank Herbert. The planet Dune, also called Arrakis, is the third planet from Canopus.
• Star Kings and Return to the Stars, novels by Edmond Hamilton. Canopus is a capital of the Middle Galactical Empire.
• Canopus in Argos novels by Doris Lessing. A civilization of benevolent beings is based in Canopus and plays a part in human history. The main description of the Canopans is found in the novel Shikasta.
• "Where No Man Has Gone Before", episode of Star Trek (TOS) television series. A sonnet called "Nightingale Woman" is written in 1996 by Tarbolde of Canopus. The Enterprise later visited Alpha Carinae in "The Ultimate Computer". A series of fictional starships was named for this star's traditional name (USS Canopus) by the Federation, according to the Star Fleet Technical Manual and later novels.
• "The Kidnappers" (1967), episode of The Time Tunnel television series. The time travelers are transported to a planet orbiting Canopus to rescue Dr. Ann MacGregor, whose abductor left behind a metallic computer card that would provide the coordinates.
• BattleTech wargame and related products. The Magistracy of Canopus is an interstellar government.
• Frontier: Elite II and Frontier: First Encounters, computer games. Canopus has a few colonies dedicated to mining in both Frontier games. Interestingly, two minor planets (both moons of a gas giant and a brown dwarf, respectively) both share the same name of Camp Lawrence.

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Capella (Alpha Aurigae)

• [[Towards the Light, A History of Civilization according to Spiritism]], a 1938 psychographic work written by Brazilian medium Chico Xavier ( Francisco de Paula Cândido Xavier ) as dictated by his spirit guide Emmanuel. Chapter III describes the expelling of recalcitrant spirits from an advanced civilization inhabiting a planet of the Capella constellation, that were transferred to Earth and reincarnated there as primates in order to become the precursors of the earthly Adamic Races. ( A Caminho da Luz, História da Civilização à Luz do Espiritismo, ISBN 85-7328-069-7, issued and copyrighted in 1939 by the publishing branch of Federação Espírita Brasileira - FEB ).
• Starship Troopers, novel by Robert A. Heinlein. The distance from Sol to Capella is used to illustrate the speed at which Navy ships under the "Chere