The Sun Runs on Fusion Energy
How the sun looks through x-ray eyes!
Like all stars, the sun is a huge fusion reactor, pumping out 100 million times as much energy in a single second as the entire population of Earth uses in a year!
Visit the Layers of the Sun page to learn more about the sun.
To learn more about stars and the fusion reactions which power them, try the IPPEX, CPEP, and/or Slide Show links here (or from the FusEdWeb menu).
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory