Understanding the Universe: An Introduction to Astronomy, 2nd Edition. Episode 48 How Stars Shine-Nature's Nuclear Reactors
(2025, original release: 2007)

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Provider: Kanopy

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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2007
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2025
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
15079946
LANGUAGE
English
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Title from title frames

When the central temperature of a contracting cloud of gas grows sufficiently high, it becomes a star—a gigantic, controlled, thermonuclear reactor, fusing hydrogen into helium and maintaining a constant luminosity and size

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Alex Filippenko

Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2007

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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