Tom Bishop, i don't ever believe in coincidences! Everything in our reality always seems to have "multi-layered" premises.
On one layer, for example, the sun possibly gets (autonomous) maintenance, on other it could be a flaw in design, and the third could be, that the flaw is very intelligently and smartly used for other purposes of the designer.
It doesn't quite relate to the topic or answers, but the sun and the moon are definitely artificial and are in multitudes, deployed in various regions. I don't know who made or makes them regularly.
Just in case it might be interesting for someone(i hope someone will get insipiration from this for their artwork, book, plot of the game, fanfiction), i'm gonna retranslate a crazy
theory hypothesis by
ukrainian conspirologist Vyacheslav Kotlyarov about the sun, that more reads like a fantasy story:
There was a single sun on earth, just as in both flat earth and oblate spheroid earth theories( i personally assume and start to believe, right now there are many suns). It was larger than 32 miles in diameter, it was higher than 6000 miles up. And There was and is a bi-dome/shell/mantle/"egg"/"snowball"/"bubble"("in an egg, which is in a duck, which is in a hare, which is in an iron chest (sometimes the chest is crystal and/or gold), which is buried under a green oak tree, which is on the island of Buyan in the ocean") surrounding earth with bigger altitude relative from ground to sky.
But the sun was replaced by, if they actually existed and exist now, malevolent highly-intelligent reptilian-draconian-insectoid hierarchical/hive consciousness alien(4th dimensional entity) bond at the time of beginning of human enslavement/"occupation" 217-317 years ago from now.
And after the enslavement there was a "reboot" of human history. And even today constant history rewrites are continuing via intelligent deep brainwashing from childhood to death (and will/intents) of humans and complete infiltration, for absolute control, in every aspects of human life of aliens(4th dimensional beings), hiding in interactive holographic human cloaks.
Brainwashing and alien infiltration in human life are the only parts, which i'm starting to believe in more and more!
The conspirologist Kotlyarov also relied his hypothesis on Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky' "Stolen sun":
"The sun in the sky walked
And for cloud ran,
Looked sainika in the window,
Became saince dark.
And magpies
White-sided
Galloped through the fields,
Cried the crane:
“Woe! Woe! Crocodile
The sun in the sky swallowed!
There was darkness,
Do not go outside the gate:
People on the street got -
Lost and gone.
Cries grey Sparrow:
“Come, honey, hurry!
Us without the sun it's a shame -
In the field of grain is not visible!”
Cry of Bunny
On the lawn:
Lost, the poor, the way,
Them to the house not to walk.
Only cancers eyed
On the earth in the darkness of the climb,
Yes in the ravine behind the mountain
The rabid wolves howl.
Early
Two sheep
Banged on the gate:
Tra-TA-TA, tra-TA-TA!
“Hey you, animals, going out,
Crocodile defeat,
To the greedy Crocodile
The sun in the sky captains!”
But shaggy afraid:
“Where we like to fight!
He and menacing, and toothy,
He told us the sun will not give up!”
And run them to Bear in the den:
“Come here you, Bear to the rescue.
Fully paw you, bum, suck,
Should the sun go fetch!”
But the Bears don't want to fight:
When he goes he goes, Bear, round swamp
He is crying, the Bear, and roars,
The cubs he calls from the swamp:
“Oh, where are you, mastopatie disappeared?
Who are you me old, threw?”
And in the swamp bear prowling around,
Cubs under the driftwood is looking for:
“Where are you, where are you gone?
Or in the ditch fell?
Or a stray dog
You broke the darkness?”
And all day she wanders through the forest,
But nowhere bears no finds.
Only black owls from the thicket
On her eyes teramat.
Then the angel went
And the Bear said:
“It's a shame the old blub -
You're not a hare and a Bear.
You podi, clumsy,
Crocodile escarpa,
Tear him to pieces,
Pluck the sun out of his mouth
And when it again
Will be in the sky to Shine
Kids your furry,
The cubs mastopatie,
Themselves to home resort:
“Hello, grandpa, here we are!”
And stood
Bear,
Growled
Bear,
And to the Great River
Ran
Bear.
And in the Big River
Crocodile
Lies,
And his teeth
No fire is lit -
Red sun,
The sun is stolen.
Came the Bear quietly,
He alkanol it lightly:
“I tell thee, villain,
Spit out the sun soon!
Not that he'll get it -
Half break, -
Are you ignorant, know
Our sun to steal!
Lost the whole world,
And him and grief no!”
But shameless laughs
So that the tree shakes:
“If you want,
And the moon I'll swallow it!”
Not stand,
Bear,
Roared
Bear,
And evil enemy
Bumped
Bear.
He rumpled his
And broke it:
“Give here
Our sun!”
Scared Crocodile,
Screamed, cried,
And out of his mouth
From toothy
The sun fell,
The sky was rolled out!
Ran through the bushes,
On birch leaves.
Hello, the sun was Golden!
Hello, the sky is blue!
Steel birds Twitter,
For insects to fly.
Became the Bunny
On the lawn
Tumbling and jumping.
And look: the cubs,
How funny kittens,
Straight to grandpa hairy,
Mastopatie, run:
"Hello, grandpa, here we are!"
Happy bunnies and squirrels,
Happy boys and girls
Hug and kiss clumsy:
"Well, thank you, grandpa, for the sun!"
The translation is almost unreadable without thorough efforts.
Kotlyarov have stated that the Crocodile in the tale is a metaphore to reptilian/draconian beings on highly-technological (space)ships and the Bear is a metaphore to, not actually Russia at all, but ancient slavic people. So in that sense Vyacheslav is dogmatic, but he denies to devote himself to nationalism and patriotism, as he believes it's part of brainwashing in every country. All of the animals excluding Crocodile are metaphors to humans, and/or benevolent extraterrestrial/alien beings.