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Like all stars, our sun is powered by the fusion of hydrogen into heavy elements. Nuclear fusion is not only what makes stars shine, it is also the primary source of the chemical elements that make up the world around us. Much of our understanding of stellar fusion comes from …

Every second, billions upon billions of incredibly low-mass subatomic particles called neutrinos shoot out of the Sun and glide undetected through your body. These neutrinos are produced by the two known types of fusion reactions that occur on our Sun, and so far scientists have only detected one group of …