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The Sun consists of 70% hydrogen, 28% helium and 2% heavier elements such as carbon. Helium is being formed in the core of the Sun every moment of time. It has a hydrogen core and forms helium by nuclear fusion. The Sun is a "main-sequence star which means it stops after all of the hydrogen has been fused into helium. The hydrogen molecules collide rapidly, which causes the heat on the Sun, by atomic fusion, ever heard of an H-bomb? the Sun is a giant H-bomb but every moment has billions of explosions, due to the tremendous pressure of the core. giving it the ability to have solar winds, and high heat and light emission. A different type of star such as red giants will continue to fuse, which is how they become so large. After the hydrogen has formed helium, the outermost shell is hydrogen burning, with a helium fusing core, then carbon is formed in the core, pushing helium to the array of shells, still leaving hydrogen as the outermost shell. After the maximum amount of fusion occurs, there is a dense molten iron core, with silicon, magnesium, neon, oxygen, carbon, helium, then a hydrogen burning shell. Thats an entire lesson for you!

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