Sally Kohn: We use star clusters to figure out how stars evolve. She says it's the same thing as taking a snapshot of civilization, and all you have is a snapshot. How are people born? How do they die? You know, are we born in the ground? Right. Shrivelled, and we bring you out of the ground, and then we feed you, and then you flesh out, and then over time do you then shrink, and then exit back into another human being? But the time order is not obvious, because we don't have a video of this happening. And so um, but just I'll give you an example, some one way or
What is thermonuclear fusion? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice break down the Department of Energy’s breakthrough, thermonuclear fusion at the center of stars, supernovae, and how stars are born.
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