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The Sun and other stars generate tremendous amounts of energy, resulting in their characteristic heat and light, from fusion processes which occur in the star's core. The most common is the fusion of hydrogen into helium, although other fusion processes also take place depending on things like the age and mass of the star. If you calculate the amount of mass converted into energy in the fusion of hydrogen into helium - about 0.7% of the mass - and multiply that by the square of the speed of light (per Einstein's famous formula, E=mc^2) that's a lot of energy!

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