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The enormous heat and pressure at the center of a star causes atoms to fuse together, releasing enormous amounts of energy. Most stars fuse hydrogen, but larger stars that have exhausted the hydrogen in their cores may fuse heavy elements.
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What Stars burn hydrogen?
All stars 'burn' hydrogen
Which gas makes stars burn for kids?
Hydrogen is the primary fuel that stars burn. A star fuses two hydrogen atoms together to form one helium atom. Energy is released during the process that we see as light and feel as heat.
Is helium naturally produced in stars?
Yes, stars fuse Hydrogen atoms to make Helium in a natural process.
Which gas makes stars burn?
Stars don't burn in the sense we are use to here on Earth. They do not combine oxygen with a fuel to generate energy. Stars shine brightly because they take atoms (in the case of our Sun - hydrogen atoms) and squeeze them together under tremendous temperatures and pressure from gravity, forcing them to fuse into heavier atoms - helium for our star. There is an extra bit of mass that is converted to energy in this process by Einstein's E=MC2, which generates the heat and light we see and feel.
What is the most common element that is found in the stars?
Stars are mostly made up of hydrogen. The stars use the hydrogen atoms to make helium. Please recomend me.
Do stars ever burn out?
Stars shine because they are so extremely hot. Which is why fire gives off light. It is a process of turning one chemical make up into another chemical make up. In most stars hydrogen is being converted into a helium. The energy from this gives the star heat. This warms the outside of the surface of the star and the surface gives off heat and light. So you can say that stars are not on fire, even though they look that way, so they are not burning.
How do most stars make light?
Well Stars use 4 atoms of Hydrogen and 1 atom of Helium fuse together.
Is the stratosphere where shooting stars burn?
Yes. But you know that it won't burn enough so the star won't make even a normal damage.
Does solid have atoms?
All solids consist of atoms except for some stars such as neutron stars.
Does the ratio of Helium atoms to Hydrogen atoms become larger as a star ages?
yes because when a star ages, the star collapses forming new stars which make up more atoms.
Is it true stars like the sun burn hydrogen producing helium?
All stars fuse hydrogen into helium - the slight difference in atomic weight between 4 hydrogen atoms and one helium atom, is given off as radiation.
Who invented an atom?
The one who invented a atom is Democritus. not true he might have discovered the atom, but the stars make the atoms
