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To: Beowulf9

The sun and stars began as clumps of hydrogen gas (which in turn was generated in the creation event) whose own gravity squeezed them together tightly enough to start nuclear fusion processes that turn the hydrogen into helium and release lots of energy. If this keeps up long enough the hydrogen is depleted and the helium starts getting squeezed together into heavier elements — it will be an extremely long time before the sun starts doing this, if it ever does. A symmetric globe is what you get when there is no other significant force affecting the star. Stars that spin rapidly enough become squatty ellipse shapes.


12 posted on 06/19/2009 11:27:29 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (In only 19 weeks, 0 has enabled us to agree with the Taliban [his empty speechifying] - Iron Munro)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Hey, thank you. That’s very interesting material.


13 posted on 06/19/2009 11:40:45 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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