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How the Earth and Sun Came to Be by Bobby B.

Once the sun was a planet named Zethur. There was so much wrong-doings on Zethur that the gods destroyed it. They did this by smashing an astroid fragment the size of the earth into it, and Zethur's hot iron core was exposed. It exploded into the atmosphere, and all the pieces of the core slammed down back to Zethur, making it a desolate wasteland. Slowly, the gods felt bad for their annihilation, so they brightened Zethur by injecting tons of iron and sulfur. It was so bright that beings could see it for up to ten light years away. The beings thought it was an entity and followed the light. They decided to worship it.

Because the beings wanted others to see it, they injected some other things into it to make it brighter and shinier. So now, it shines so far away, people in another galaxy can see it. Perhaps, it wasn't so bad to destroy Zethur.

While the aliens were worshiping Zethur, they saw an amazing planet that was just the right position and distance that they decided to make a memorial for Zethur. They terraformed it and put water on it from their home planet. They also put a single-celled bacteria in the water to see if it could sustain life; it did. They decided to go ahead and put more on it and leave. They named the planet, Earth. The gods were pleased with the aliens' actions and let the earth's species thrive. That's how the earth and sun came to be.

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