the/./visible/./surface/./of/./the/./Sun;/./underneath/./the/./chromosphere/./-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ photosphere
Before/./the/./Sun/./was/./a/./star,/./it/./was/./a/./hot/./cloud/./of/./____/./____/./-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ Hydrogen/./gas
Gravity/./slowly/./contracted/./the/./gas/./that/./made/./up/./the/./sun,/./making/./it/./__
__/./and/./____/./-/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ denser/./and/./hotter
___/./___/./is/./the/./contraction/./that/./occurs/./in/./the/./formation/./of/./a/./star/./until/./
a/./balance/./is/./achieved/./between/./the/./___/./___/./___/./and/./the/./___/./___/./___/./-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔
hyrdrostatic/./equilibrium;/./outward/./thermal/./pressure;/./inward/./gravitatio
nal/./force
While/./in/./hydrostatic/./equilibrium/./the/./Sun/./neither/./___/./nor/./___/./-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ contracts;/./expands
The/./high/./___/___/./in/./the/./Sun's/./core/./permits
, nuclei/./to/./fuse/./-/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ temperature;/./pressure
In/./nuclear/./fusion,/./4/./protons/./of/./hydrogen/./fuse/./to/./form..././-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔ 1/./helium/./and/./energy
4/./steps/./of/./nuclear/./fusion/./in/./the/./Sun/./(the/./proton-proton/./chain)/./-
/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔
1)/./2/./protons/./fuse/./to/./make/./deuterium/./nucleus/./(occurs/./twice)
2)/./deuterium/./nucleus/./and/./a/./proton/./fuse/./(from/./gamma/./ray)/./to/./make/./he
lium-3/./(occurs/./twice)
3)/./Two/./helium-3/./fuse/./to/./form/./helium-4,/./releasing/./2/./protons
Deuterium/./nucleus/./-/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔
has/./one/./proton/./and/./one/./neutron
nuclear/./fusion/./is/./a/./___/./___/___/./process/./-/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔
self/./sustaining/correcting
Parts/./of/./the/./Sun's/./structure/./-/./correct/./answer/./✔ ✔
inner/./core,/./radiative/./core,/./convection/./zone,/./subsurface/./flows,/./photos
phere,/./chromosphere,/./corona