Yeah I should have clarified. Like DIRECTLY on the sun :) It's not much of a spoiler, but the main problem of the book is a microbe consuming the suns radiation and robbing Earth of sunlight.

> lives off the sun, creating problems, and new technologies.

It sounds like humans, from the description. Not sure if that was the joke.

This is a bit of a spoiler but in the book, the astrophage sits on the Sun and eats it.

Ah!