Nuclear Fusion in Sun Fuses 600 Million Tons Of Hydrogen 🔥

When the universe was born, it contained mostly hydrogen and helium, plus a dash of a couple other light elements. Fusion in stars and supernovae have since furnished the cosmos with more than 80 other elements.

Along with the creation of new elements, fusion releases enormous amounts of energy and particles of light called photons.

These photons take some 250,000 years to bump their way up the 700,000 kilometres to reach the sun's visible surface from the solar core. After that, the light only takes eight minutes to travel the 150 million kilometres to Earth.

Fission, the opposite nuclear reaction that splits heavy elements into smaller ones, was first demonstrated in laboratories in the 1930s and is used today in nuclear power plants.

The energy released in fission can create a cataclysmic bang. But for a given amount of mass, it's still several times less than the energy created from fusion.

However, scientists have not yet figured out how to control the plasma in a way to produce power from fusion reactions.

Nuclear Fusion in Sun Fuses 600 Million Tons Of Hydrogen 🔥

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[leewilson]

You said the sun fuses hydrogen, where does this process start making all the other elements