For the first time in history, scientists have detected the energy cycle that fuels the stars.
In an article published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature, physicists described their discovery of neutrinos, confirming a nearly century old, 1930s-era theoretical prediction about how the energy of stars is created, NBC reported.
“It’s really a breakthrough for solar and stellar physics,” Gioacchino Ranucci, one of the project’s researchers from the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics, told the outlet.
The discovery is being lauded as a landmark finding and one of the greatest discoveries in physics to happen in the last 1,000 years, the outlet said.
The neutrinos can be traced to the fusion of carbon, nitrogen and oxygen, also known as the CNO cycle, that happens inside the sun.
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“discovery of neutrinos”
Um, no. We’ve known about the existence of neutrinos for some time already, a zero charge particle with almost no mass (well at least the three currently know neutrinos are the electron, mu and tau). And that’s without Google. So I’m not sure what this article is talking about.
“one of the greatest discoveries in physics to happen in the last 1,000 years”
Give me a break.
Article is unclear. This is the first experimental evidence of CNO cycle in stars and indeed a very relevant result.
Basically, like a carbs like diet, right?
Tell me more!