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Testing solar fusion model
•Does lifetime of sun make sense?
–Oldest rocks on earth ~4 billion years old
–Oldest rocks in meteorites ~4.5 billion years old
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•Other stars with higher/lower luminosity
–Causes for different luminosity
–Lifetimes of those stars
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•Look for neutrinos from fusion
–Complicated story – due to neutrino properties
–Example of how astronomy presents “extreme” conditions