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Sun (disambiguation)

• In astronomy, the Sun is the star in our solar system, and a "sun" is the star around which no star bodies orbit, also called an object's "primary".
• The technology company, Sun is a Silicon Valley-based computer, semiconductor and software manufacturer.
• The operating system, SunOS is Sun Microsystems' operating system.
• The name, Sun is a Chinese family name represented by the characters 孫 or 孙.
• There are several tabloid newspapers called The Sun. The most famous of these is the British newspaper The Sun. There is also The New York Sun, a broadsheet newspaper, the Toronto Sun, a tabloid similar to the British newspaper, and the Vancouver Sun, a newspaper by CanWest Global Communications. The Sun is also a minor English language newspaper in Malaysia.
• There was also the The Sun News-Pictorial morning tabloid in Melbourne, Australia for many years, until it merged with its afternoon broadsheet sister paper The Herald to form the Herald Sun. It is similar in scope to the UK Sun.
• "The Sun" is also the name of a supermarket tabloid published in the United States by American Media, Inc. The first death during the 2001 anthrax attack was a photo editor of this paper who worked at their Boca Raton, Florida offices.