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How the Sun Works:
Each second, the sun turns 4 million tons
of hydrogen into energy (<.01% total)
Hydrogen burning:
4H -> 1 He + 25 MeV + 2 neutrinos
It takes a photon of light about 170,000
years to travel from the Sunís core to
the bottom of the convection zone
(Neanderthals!)
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