December Flower
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no the core is hydrogen and makes helium.Ah ok. Is our sun made of iron at its core?
Guess you can tell science isnt my strong suit![]()
Well, not as simple as that, it actually makes helium so actively,
that there's never much hydrogen left, sun always fluctuates between about 80% hydrogen to only 1/3 hydrogen.
It's a giant fusion reactor, so essentially you got the core that's just plasma (plasma means a mix of positive and negative charge, so ions and electrons) with a pressure of an actual fuckton, i think 270 billion bar or so, add to that 15 mio °C..
so as you might imagine, it's hard to find stable molecules in there
The theory that stars have solid cores is pretty old, and doesn't seem to hold true at all,
the thought was with all that pressure there has to be a solid core, but actually it's the other way round,
with that much pressure it's often just impossible to have a solid core
It's hydrogen that converts into helium, once it's all helium, the star is essentially dead and will self-destruct (this takes a few years

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