nuclear furnace

Perhaps that’s why we often embrace a fiery vocabulary to describe it, as the band They Might Be Giants did when they referred to the sun as a “nuclear furnace.”

Solar neutrinos therefore provide a direct view into the nuclear furnace in the Sun’s core.

That great nuclear furnace does not by itself create what we think of when we dream of a summer day.

During their death throes, as they are running out of fuel for the nuclear furnace in their cores, giant stars swell up to enormous size and eject huge amounts of gas and dust into space.

The nuclear furnace in a star's core welds atoms together, transforming hydrogen into slightly heavier helium.