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    What stops a star from fusing all its fuel at once?

    Pretty sure Hydrostatic Equilibrium acts as a thermostat and that maintains a consistent fusion rate. Can someone verify please.
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    How do solar neutrinos interact with nuclei to create radioactive elements?

    I looked up inverse beta decay http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1363128 And a neutron and a neutrino create a proton and electron. So I see how the (Cl) nucleus can become an (Ar) nucleus through this process. Awesome help thanks.
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    How do solar neutrinos interact with nuclei to create radioactive elements?

    I was reading about the South Dakota Homestake Solar Neutrino detector and I have a question? What I am getting from reading about it is that, they detect solar neutrinos by looking for a neutrinos interaction with a (Cl) nucleus to make a radioactive (Ar) Nucleus. (Ar) is one atomic...
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    Stellar orbits around the milky way.

    I was just thinking about how this is done. I have looked online and I can't find a none mathematical explanation. If I am getting it right, we get the orbits by measuring the radial and tangential velocities of several stars relative to our sun. I thought the tangential velocity was...
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