The Sun is a giant ball made of hydrogen and helium gases. Deep in the center of the Sun, hydrogen atoms are pressed together ...

Our white dwarf Sun will cool for billions upon billions of years, slowly fading away as a dark, solid carbon-oxygen ball.

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White dwarfs typically have a radius just .01 times that of our own sun, but their mass is about the same. Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium. White dwarfs are stars that ...

The Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) – also called ‘artificial sun’ - has achieved the milestone of 1,006 ...

When two photons combine with a neutron and two electrons during the nuclear fusion process on the Sun, this combination gives rise to the high-energy Helium ... that they have the technology ...