Arrakis is also an alternative name for the star Mu Draconis. Arrakis (الراقص ar-rāqiṣ, "the dancer"), informally known as Dune and later called Rakis, is a fictional desert planet featured in the Dune series of novels by Frank Herbert. Herbert's originating 1965 (55 years ago) novel Dune is popularly considered one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time, was the first bestselling hardcover science fiction novel, and is frequently cited as the best-selling science fiction novel in history. In Dune, the planet is the home of the Fremen (Zensunni wanderers), and subsequently is the Imperial Capital of the Atreides Empire. Arrakis is the third planet orbiting the star Canopus, and it in turn is orbited by two moons, one of which has the image (wallpaper) of the desert kangaroo mouse, Muad'Dib, on it; the other moon possesses the image (wallpaper) of a human hand.

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