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Sunrta Corona
Sunrta Corona is a 170-km-wide corona, a ring-fractured volcano-tectonic feature, on Venus at 8.3N, 11.7E in the Sappho Patera quadrangle (V-20); IAU-named in 1994 for a Hindu fertility goddess, with mapped lava flows inside and outside it.
Sunrun
Sunrun Inc. is an American residential solar and home battery storage company founded in San Francisco in 2007, selling solar energy through long-term leases and power purchase agreements.
Sunsave
Sunsave is a London-based British startup, founded in 2022 by Alick Dru and Ben Graves, offering the UK's first FCA-authorized solar subscription with no upfront cost.
Sunscreen
Sunscreen is a topical US nonprescription drug product that protects skin from UVB and UVA rays; bemotrizinol was FDA-approved in June 2026 as the first new US filter in over 25 years.
Sunset
Sunset is the moment when the upper edge of the Sun's disk disappears below the horizon; atmospheric refraction means the Sun is already geometrically below it.
Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach is the name of several coastal places: the Oahu North Shore big-wave surf break (Paumalū), a 1904-platted California community annexed by Huntington Beach in 2011, a Brunswick County NC town, and parks in Vancouver, St. Catharines, and Cape Town.
Sunset Beach (TV series)
Sunset Beach: NBC daytime soap opera (January 6, 1997 to December 31, 1999), Aaron Spelling's first daytime venture, created by Robert Guza Jr., set in a fictional California beach town; low US ratings, two Emmys, notable UK popularity.
Sunset Boulevard
Sunset Boulevard is a major east-west Los Angeles thoroughfare from Pacific Coast Highway to Figueroa Street, tied to Hollywood's film industry, the 1950 Billy Wilder film, the Lloyd Webber musical, and ongoing road-safety redesign campaigns.
Sunset Boulevard (film)
Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Blvd.), 1950 Billy Wilder Paramount film noir starring Gloria Swanson as faded silent star Norma Desmond and William Holden as screenwriter Joe Gillis; 11 Oscar nominations, 3 wins, 1989 National Film Registry.
Sunset Boulevard (musical)
Sunset Boulevard is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical with book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, based on Billy Wilder's 1950 film. Premiered London 1993 with Patti LuPone, Broadway 1994 with Glenn Close; Jamie Lloyd's 2024 revival with Nicole Scherzinger won the Tony for Best Revival.
Sunset Crater
Sunset Crater, also known as Sunset Crater Volcano, is a cinder cone in northern Arizona that erupted around 1085 CE, the youngest in the San Francisco Volcanic Field.
Sunset Limited
The Sunset Limited is an Amtrak long-distance passenger train between Los Angeles and New Orleans, inaugurated by the Southern Pacific in the 1890s and retained by Amtrak in 1971.
Sunset Oasis
Sunset Oasis (Wahat al-Ghuroub) is a 2007 historical novel by Bahaa Taher set in Siwa Oasis under British rule, winner of the first International Prize for Arabic Fiction.
Sunset Overdrive
Sunset Overdrive is a 2014 open-world traversal shooter by Insomniac Games, published by Microsoft Studios for Xbox One, set in 2027 Sunset City after a tainted energy drink mutates the population; Metacritic 81, ported to Steam in 2018.
Sunset provision
Sunset provision (sunset law): a statutory clause that makes a law, agency, program, or regulation expire automatically on a set date unless the legislature formally renews it; pioneered by Colorado in 1976, spread to 36 states by 1982.
Sunset Shimmer
Sunset Shimmer is a My Little Pony character, a unicorn pony-turned-human and former student of Princess Celestia who debuted as the villain of Equestria Girls (2013), voiced by Rebecca Shoichet, and became the spin-off's reformed lead with empathy powers.
Sunset Strip
The Sunset Strip is a roughly 1.6-mile stretch of Sunset Boulevard in West Hollywood, California, famous since the 1920s for nightlife, the Whisky a Go Go, the 1966 curfew riots, and rock venues like the Roxy and Viper Room.
Sunset Thomas
Sunset Thomas (Diane Fowler, born 1972), American former adult film star and Nevada brothel prostitute; AVN Hall of Fame 2001, HBO Cathouse, final film Into the Sunset (2009).
Sunshine (2007 film)
Sunshine is a 2007 British science fiction film directed by Danny Boyle and written by Alex Garland, about astronauts on a mission to reignite the dying Sun.
Sunshine (Jungle album)
Sunshine (2026) is the fifth studio album by London band Jungle, released August 14, 2026 on Caiola/AWAL. First Jungle album as a trio with Lydia Kitto; 11 songs, 32 minutes; Metacritic 79.
Sunshine Biscuits
Sunshine Biscuits, founded 1902 in Kansas City as Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company and renamed Sunshine Biscuit, Inc. in 1946, was the American baker behind Hydrox cookies, Cheez-It, and Krispy crackers and Nabisco's chief rival; acquired by Keebler in 1996, Kellogg in 2001, and now under Kellanova/Mars.
Sunshine Cleaning
Sunshine Cleaning is a 2008 American comedy-drama directed by Christine Jeffs, starring Amy Adams and Emily Blunt as sisters who start a crime-scene cleanup business in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve
Sunshine Coast Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO Man and the Biosphere site designated June 2022 in Queensland, Australia; 2,200 square kilometers, 375,328 residents, one of five Australian biospheres, adjoining Noosa and Great Sandy reserves.
Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Sunshine Coast, Queensland: coastal region of South East Queensland about 100 km north of Brisbane, with centres Caloundra, Maroochydore, and Noosa; name adopted 1966-67; LGA population 381,957 (2025), $21 billion economy, Queensland's second most visited tourism region.
Sunshine Cruz
Sunshine Cruz (Sunshine Braden Cruz), Filipina actress and singer born 1977 in Manila; discovered in 1992 for That's Entertainment, known for Wildflower and Unbreak My Heart, ex-wife of Cesar Montano, returned to acting in 2026 after a myasthenia gravis hiatus.
Sunshine duration
Sunshine duration, or sunshine hours, is a climatological quantity defined by the WMO as the time direct solar irradiance exceeds 120 W/m², measured in hours at climate stations.
Sunshine Insurance Group
Sunshine Insurance Group (阳光保险集团) is a Chinese composite insurance group headquartered in Shenzhen, underwriting property, casualty, and life insurance and managing assets; its H shares have traded in Hong Kong since 2022.
Sunshine of Your Love
Sunshine of Your Love, the 1967 Cream song by Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, and Pete Brown, recorded at Atlantic Studios; Hendrix-inspired riff, first US Top 10 hit at No. 5 in 1968.
Sunshine on Leith (film)
Sunshine on Leith (2013) is Dexter Fletcher's British musical film, adapted by Stephen Greenhorn from his Dundee Rep stage show, set to Proclaimers songs, starring George MacKay, Peter Mullan and Jane Horrocks, grossing £4.1m in the UK.
Sunshine Protection Act
Sunshine Protection Act, U.S. bill by Marco Rubio (S. 623, 2021) and Vern Buchanan (H.R. 139, 2025) to make daylight saving time permanent, repealing the Uniform Time Act; passed Senate 2022, House 2026.