Kryptonian
Somehow I find very similar the red sun with infra red technology. What the red sun does is very different, it maintains gravity stable and intercepts the effects of the elemens from the planet and is basically a penetrating cold light which controls the system. The planet itself contains the properties of temperature as a set of interactive functions. Our yellow sun is rather opposite to theirs. It transmits energy and is also hot and radioactive. This is the very reason why these people change under our sun...they absorb energy like living plants and convert it into vital signs abnormal to us, what we call "powers." On earth these people can be felt and look like humans. Their natural tissue is still flexible but very tough like a sack of sand...you press it but cannot be perforated. This also explains why Superman can be deceiving...you shake his hand or hug him and still feels normal not like real metal or dummy. It is necessary for me to mention examples. What do make of this?