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You can't own the Sun. No. Not yours.

Angeles Duran's claim of ownership of the Sun lacks legal support as international space law prohibits such individual claims.

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Angeles Duran is a woman in Spain who claims to own the Sun.

I mean that literally. She says in no uncertain terms that she has laid claim to the Sun, the nearest star, the provider of light and heat to the solar system. As her claim states, she is:

...owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometres.

OK then. But is her claim legit? She certainly thinks so*. As she says,

"There was no snag, I backed my claim legally, I am not stupid, I know the law. I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first."

Well, she may not be stupid, but she's quite wrong: her claim is not backed legally, and she does not know the law. Then ...

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