Inside A Star's Burning White-Hot Core
A star is born by hydrogen remains from another star's death (AKA supernova and nebula). If we zoom into a star that we see in the night sky, you only see it's surface, called the photosphere. Zooming in through the layers, in the center of the star, you see a white object that is extremely hot. This is called the core. Looking at tiny atoms, you can see tiny hydrogen atoms colliding with each other several times to create helium. The spare electrons are shot out of the star, reaching us and producing the light we see, or fired at another atom and starts to orbit around it.
What is the process of transforming hydrogen to helium called?
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Nuclear fusion is the correct answer because nuclear fission is where two atoms collide and their protons and neutrons break in two. Nuclear fishion and nuclear foodion do not exist. That is why nuclear fusion is the correct answer.