{"id":116360,"date":"2020-11-26T13:24:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-decipher-the-suns-nuclear-fusion-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2020-11-26T13:24:04","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T21:24:04","slug":"scientists-decipher-the-suns-nuclear-fusion-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/scientists-decipher-the-suns-nuclear-fusion-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Decipher the Sun\u2019s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-decipher-the-suns-nuclear-fusion-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The discovery \u201creinforces our confidence that we understand how stars work.\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>New Life<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Scientists had already found neutrinos given off when the Sun fuses hydrogen into helium, a hallmark process of lighter stars that gives off 99 percent of the sun\u2019s energy. The new discovery not only extended the lifespan of the Borexino detector \u2014 which was scheduled to be decommissioned next month \u2014 but also revitalized scientists\u2019 understanding of the cosmos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConfirmation of CNO burning in our sun, where it operates at only one percent, reinforces our confidence that we understand how stars work,\u201d UMass Amherst physicist Andrea Pocar said in the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The discovery \u201creinforces our confidence that we understand how stars work.\u201d New Life Scientists had already found neutrinos given off when the Sun fuses hydrogen into helium, a hallmark process of lighter stars that gives off 99 percent of the sun\u2019s energy. The new discovery not only extended the lifespan of the Borexino detector \u2014 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}