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Understanding the “Hydrogen Burning” Power of Our Sun – Success After More Than 80 Years – SciTechDaily

The Borexino collaboration, in which also scientists from TU Dresden are involved, has succeeded after more than 80 years in experimentally confirming the Bethe-Weizsäcker…

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The Borexino detector in combination with the Sun. Credit: Copyright Borexino Collaboration/Maxim Gromov
The Borexino collaboration, in which also scientists from TU Dresden are involved, has succeeded after more than 80 years in experimentally confirming the Bethe-Weizsäcker cycle.
Stars produce their energy through nuclear fusion by converting hydrogen into helium — a process known to researchers as “hydrogen burning.” There are two ways of carrying out this fusion reaction: on the one hand, the…

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