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Curiosities: How to create an artificial sun
Curiosities: How to create an artificial sun

Curiosities: How to create an artificial sun

Did you know that the core temperature of the sun is about 15 million degrees Celsius and its massive mass creates a gravitational pull which is approximately 28 times that on Earth? These two conditions enable the sun’s hydrogen atoms to fuse into helium emitting heat in the process. But how are similar conditions created on Earth? In a tokamak, to