What Makes a Star Shine?

Stars shine because they are like giant, super-powered campfires. Inside a star, hydrogen atoms join together to make helium, and this process lets out a lot of light and heat, which is what we see as the shining of stars.

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Imagine a giant, glowing fire in space that never goes out.
Like a campfire but much bigger, burning for millions of years.
It's like having a giant sun inside a ball made mostly of gas.

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