Space exploration began with the launch of Sputnik and Astrophysics was born as the application of physics to the phenomena observed by Astronomy, which etymologically means laws of the stars.
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| Bethe-Weizsã¤Cker Cycle |
An alternative term for the carbon cycle, named after the physicists who, in the early 1930s, first proposed this sequence of nuclear processes as a source of stellar energy.
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