Nightfall

It's hard for me to believe this science fiction short story. I mean, a planet that does not experience nightfall except once in every 2, 049 years? That's incredible! I can't imagine living on that planet. On our planet Earth, there is always a nightfall, which takes place when the sun sets at west. And that's the normal thing for us. We experience it everyday and we could not imagine if there's a sudden change on that routine.
However, in Nightfall, a story written by Isaac Asimov, there is a planet called Lagash which has six suns that keeps the whole planet continuously illuminated and total darkness is unknown. I wonder where that planet is or does it even exist? As far as we know, there is only one planet that is capable of life and that's Earth. However, there is a confusion to it because of the sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) which only means that there is still life living on another planets. Anyways, that is not yet proven. It still remains as a mystery that we are still trying to find out. For now, I would say that the story is pure fiction.
When a group of scientists from Saro University begin to make a series of related discoveries that the planet would soon experience nightfall, they are afraid that the world would be destroyed in a darkness with the appearance of stars that unleash a torrent of fire. Since the people of Lagash has never experienced universal darkness, the scientists conclude that the darkness would result to worldwide panic and people would be traumatized and would go insane from fear and claustrophobia. When the nightfall occurs, the scientists and the rest of the planet are surprised by the sight of previously-invisible stars outside the six-star system filling the sky. And that's how the story ends.
The story also touched the Book of Revelations, in which we can read of how the Earth would end or what we call Armageddon. They are thinking that the nightfall is the way in which God would end the Earth. It is possible, isn't it? Anyways, I find the story interesting. As I was researching about this story, I have learned that this story gained several awards. It was even adapted into a novel and was a major motion picture on 1988. Thus, Isaac Asimov deserves a two-thumbs up for a fantastic story.