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Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time – Futurism
The discovery “reinforces our confidence that we understand how stars work.”
Stellar Fusion
For the first time, scientists were able to directly measure the sort of nuclear fusion happening at the Suns core.
The study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals that our star performs whats called the carbon-nitrogen-oxygen (CNO) fusion cycle, a process that involves heavier elements than what scientists expected for a star of the Suns size. Most importantly, it confirms empirically that the CNO cycle exists, something scientists havent been able to do since hypothesizing…
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