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as a yellow dwarf star, Sol was the primary for the Sol system.
This system was located in a stellar cluster in Sector 001 (or
Sol sector) of the Alpha Quadrant.  The location of Sol in the
Milky Way Galaxy was depicted on a Federation star chart in
2293. Sol was located near Tau Ceti, Alpha Centauri, and Sirius.
(TOS: "The Cage", Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country,
production art, ENT: "Two Days and Two Nights") The location of
Sol was also seen in a viewscreen chart displayed by the USS
Enterprise-D library computer. (TOS: "The Cage"; TNG: "The Naked
Now", "The Last Outpost", "Datalore", "Conspiracy")   For
centuries, Humans believed that Sol revolved around Earth. When
the scientist Galileo Galilei publicly challenged this belief in
the early 17th century, by teaching that the opposite was true -
that Earth revolved around Sol, he was tried and convicted by an
inquisition. The i