A Spanish woman has shocked the internet after insisting that she is the legal owner of the Sun and she plans to start charging people for using its light and energy.
Angeles Duran, from Galicia in northern Spain, first made this wild claim back in 2010, but her story has resurfaced in late April 2026 and is now going viral all over again. 🚀🗣️
Here’s how she says she pulled it off. In November 2010, Duran walked into a local notary office in Salvaterra do Miño and registered the Sun as her personal property. ☀️
📜 Yes, the actual Sun. She described it as a “G2-type star” and argued that there is a loophole in international space law. According to her, while countries are banned from owning celestial bodies, nothing in the law says an individual cannot own one. 🕳️🧠
“I realised there was a loophole. The treaty says no country can own the Sun, but it doesn’t say an individual can’t,” she said back then. “I simply did what anyone else could have done, but I thought of it first.” 💭✨ And now, she says she wants to charge fees for solar energy usage, sharing the money between Spanish pensions, scientific research, global hunger relief and keeping some for herself, obviously.
But before you start checking your bank balance for sunlight tax, here’s the real tea. ☕ Legal experts say her claim holds absolutely no weight. A legal analyst explained that outer space is the common heritage of mankind, and no private claim can override that principle. Just because a notary stamped a piece of paper does not mean you own a star that is 147 million kilometres away.
In fact, in 2014, Duran tried to sue an online marketplace for blocking her from selling “plots of the Sun” and she lost, because the law does not recognise her ownership at all. 😂⚖️
So no, you don’t owe her any money for the sunshine hitting your face this morning. But you have to admit — the audacity is absolutely legendary. 😎☀️
