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WhiteLizard
No, I just wanted to say that the movie is terrible and it's been overrated. First of all, the plot is banal, repeating the overused trope of "through the horizon." Secondly, there are several incredibly stupid scientific errors. From the amusing section:

1) For Americans, all problems are solved by dropping an atomic bomb. Aliens attack? - Drop a bomb! Terrorists take over? - Drop a bomb! The same applies to the case of the sun dimming.
First, all the planets in the solar system make up 1% of the sun's mass. How can a bomb weighing billionths of the Earth's mass affect such a giant object?
Secondly, the very fact that the sun is fading is so naive that it makes astrophysicists within a 150 km radius burst their eyeballs at the mere mention of it. Who doesn't know that thermonuclear reactions in the depths of the sun cause it to expand and increase its emitted energy as long as there is fuel in the form of hydrogen? Burning all the fuel in a certain period, which is incomparable with the lifetime of humanity, will lead to collapse into a neutron star.
(However, it should be noted that Americans still missed out on the pedestal of idiocy; they were surpassed by Russians. Specifically, in the music video of one pop group for a song like "Viagra." According to the plot of the video [WARNING: DO NOT READ FOR ADEQUATE PEOPLE! SPOILER:] the sun was covered in stardust and stopped shining. A huge vacuum cleaner with blondes in tight jumpsuits was sent from Earth to save the sun.)

2) The fact that the ship flies close to the sun raises questions. As we can see in the movie, the bomb reached the surface of the object in about three minutes, and based on this, we can conclude that the distance from the ship to the sun was less than the radius of the star itself. Of course, only someone with cow dung in their head could come up with such a thing. First, this is an enormous gravity that would crush the spacecraft into a ball.

Secondly, the solar wind emitted per square meter of shield (even with a reflection coefficient of 99.999%) would easily vaporize any metal in a couple of minutes. There's no point in mentioning prominences here anymore.
Thirdly, we can quite accurately calculate the speed at which the ship orbits the sun, if h<<>

If
Equatorial radius = 6.955×10^8 m
Mass = 1.9891×10^30 kg
G - known,
then Vorb. = 5*10^5 km/s.

That is, it will take 2.7 hours for a complete revolution around the object. Not bad.
However, theoretically, it has been proven that the speed limit for reactive engines (which equipped the "Icarus") is 22*10^3 m/s. Something doesn't add up. The theoretically possible speed was exceeded by 25 times. Which, perhaps, is the least damaging to common sense in this film.

3) A person going into open space without a spacesuit. And surprisingly, the authors only paid attention to the surrounding temperature of -273.15 degrees. It's funny. I never thought you could get frostbite from a substance with a density approaching zero :) But here's the radiation dose and death from rupture of blood vessels due to internal pressure – please.

4) "Time freezing" when critically close to the sun. If time had "frozen," it would have frozen for everyone, including Kiba himself (and not just for the plasma one centimeter from his face). Complete nonsense.

5) Freddy Krueger in the jungle. There's nothing even to explain here.

Okay, I think that's enough. Those who don't want to torture their brains should watch "Pandorum" instead. It's a much better movie-peer of "Sunshine", which didn't cause me any complaints and pleased me with its plot. No more words.
And wasn't it hard to calculate?)
The film isn't about some bomb on the sun at all, but about the behavior of people who find themselves in such isolation and end up in a dangerous situation, while also having the mission of saving the Earth; this is what the film is about, as is the film "The Mist," which is not about monsters from some other dimension, but about people and how they can change under duress. Everything else is an assumption of a science fiction film; 99% of science fiction will make physicists cringe if you get down to it. By the way, the film is British and directed by a British director; only the studio is American.
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God save us everyone
Will we burn inside the fires of a thousand suns...