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Historically, astrophysics discovered how the stars die before it deciphered the way they manage to live. In the previous chapter, we almost reached the year 1940, ignoring the developments in nuclear physics. The reason is that the final state of the stars does not depend that much on the nuclear processes. We now return to the mid-1920s to discuss the evolution of nuclear physics, which had been confirmed to hold the key to the stellar energy supply.
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Shaviv, G. (2009). The Solution to the Stellar Energy Problem. In: The Life of Stars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02088-9_6
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