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The Proton Pron Chain and the Sun
In most stars the main process is converting hydrogen into helium. And that is the process that powers the sun, how does it work there? Right well I think we'll come to the conditions for fusion but certainly you need sufficiently high temperatures as we shall see. It only happens in the centre of stars when sufficiently high temperatures and sufficiently high densities have been reached.