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It's hydrogen, which is MADE INTO helium with a release of energy. As the Sun gets older, it will use up most of its hydrogen and start to use helium fuel to make carbon, but the process won't be as efficient and will be over sooner.

The Sun isn't big enough to make heavier elements, but each stage is quicker and less effective than the last. Very big stars will at last start to make iron, but that's the end, because iron cannot be made into other elements unless it's GIVEN more energy.

We get energy out of light atoms when they COMBINE, and energy from heavy ones when they BREAK APART.

The Sun has enough hydrogen to put off the helium-combining stage for 5 billion years or so.

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