What provides the energy (and so light and heat) of a star?

A. Continual explosions
B. Atomic energy/nuclear reactions
C. Lots of electricity
D. Chemical reactions at the surface
E. Gravitational contraction


Ans: B. Atomic energy/nuclear reactions

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