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Why doesn't the Sun violate the law of conservation of energy?

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Some stars, depending on their mass can fuse elements up to the element Iron, after that fusing atoms into heavier ones comes with a deficit of energy. that is why breaking apart heavy atoms (most of them created in a supernova ) gives up energy, but so does putting together much smaller hydrogen and helium atoms. read more

as many answers here mentioned, energy, in its most general form, includes the energy contained as mass. the famous E=mc^2 includes the energy that is contained as mass. read more

the mass-energy equivalence theory emerged allowing mass to be a firm of energy, so they can convert back and forth with no less and they do not violate the law of conservation of energy. read more

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