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In Chap. 2, we discussed the extraordinary conjecture by Eddington that the source of energy in the Sun and the stars must be the transmutation of the elements, more specifically, the conversion of hydrogen into helium.
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Srinivasan, G. (2014). Energy Generation in the Stars. In: What are the Stars?. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-45302-1_5
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