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Our star, the Sun, has been the first stellar object which has early stimulated the investigation of the physics of stellar interiors. Here let me only remember the pioneering papers by Eddington who, as early as 1920, was firmly predicting the need for H burning nuclear reactions in the solar core, challenging the general opinion of laboratory physicists. Now we know that Eddington was right, and that the Sun is an evidence of the (at the time ignored) tunnel effect in the behavior of quantum particles. And, in the meantime, an evidence of how deep is the connection between stars and physics.
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Castellani, V. (1999). Stellar Evolution and Standard Candles. In: Heck, A., Caputo, F. (eds) Post-Hipparcos Cosmic Candles. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 237. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4734-7_15
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