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The 78 pages that link to Stellar nucleosynthesis, each with the reason it gives.

• Stellar evolutionRelated: Fusion changes a star’s fuel supply and builds heavier elements as it evolves.

• Interstellar mediumRelated: Stars return newly made elements to the medium through winds and explosions.

• Chemical elementRelated: It built many elements from lighter nuclei during stellar lifetimes.

• Nuclear fusionRelated: Fusion builds many elements in stars, beginning with helium from hydrogen.

• White dwarfRelated: A white dwarf preserves the composition left by its progenitor's fusion history.

• HydrogenRelated: Hydrogen fusion powers stars and initiates the chain that builds heavier elements.

• Big Bang nucleosynthesisCompared with: Stars produce many heavier elements, whereas Big Bang nucleosynthesis mainly made the lightest nuclei.

• MetallicityNarrower topic: Stellar fusion and subsequent burning stages produce many elements that raise metallicity.

• SupernovaNarrower topic: Explosive reactions forge and disperse many elements heavier than iron.

• Core-collapse supernovaRelated: Successive fusion stages build the iron-group core that precedes collapse.

• LithiumNarrower topic: Stellar processes both produce and destroy lithium, shaping its cosmic abundance.

• Red giantNarrower topic: Red-giant fusion builds some heavier elements and alters the star’s composition.

• AstronomyRelated: It explains how stars create many elements later found in planets and interstellar gas.

• Mass–energy equivalenceRelated: The energy radiated by stars comes from changes in nuclear binding energy and mass.

• CarbonNarrower topic: Carbon’s cosmic abundance emerges from the broader history of element formation.

• Stellar massRelated: Mass sets the core conditions and range of fusion reactions a star can sustain.

• Fred HoyleBroader topic: Hoyle helped establish how stellar processes make elements heavier than helium.

• Asymptotic giant branchRelated: Shell burning and neutron-capture reactions make elements that can enrich the envelope.

• Hans BetheRelated: Bethe’s stellar-reaction calculations showed how stars build elements while releasing energy.

• NucleosynthesisBroader topic: Fusion in stellar interiors builds many elements up to iron.

• AstrophysicsBroader topic: It explains how stars forge many elements later found in planets and interstellar gas.

• Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinRelated: Knowing stars are hydrogen-rich helped frame later accounts of how they generate heavier elements.

• Nuclear astrophysicsBroader topic: It describes the element-building reactions that nuclear astrophysics investigates.

• Supernova nucleosynthesisNarrower topic: Supernova nucleosynthesis extends element production beyond the star's pre-explosion burning stages.

• Wolf–Rayet starRelated: Wolf–Rayet winds and terminal explosions return processed elements to surrounding space.

• George GamowRelated: Gamow’s research helped establish how stars and cosmic conditions produce elements.

• Helium-4Narrower topic: Stars create helium-4 through hydrogen fusion and later nuclear burning.

• Triple-alpha processNarrower topic: This reaction is a central pathway by which stellar nucleosynthesis makes carbon.

• Massive starRelated: Fusion in massive stars builds elements up to iron before their cores collapse.

• Women in astronomyRelated: Margaret Burbidge and collaborators helped explain how stars produce many elements.

• Galactic chemical evolutionRelated: Stars create many of the elements whose abundance changes across a galaxy.

• CNO cycleNarrower topic: The CNO cycle processes hydrogen and changes the isotope inventory inside stars.

• Galactic archaeologyRelated: Element origins connect observed abundances to earlier generations of stars.

• Population III starRelated: First-star fusion and explosions forged elements absent from the gas that formed them.

• Margaret BurbidgeNarrower topic: This broader subject encompasses the element-making processes clarified in Burbidge's work.

• Red supergiantNarrower topic: A red supergiant builds heavier nuclei in its core and surrounding shells.

• Coulomb barrierRelated: Fusion reactions in stars proceed despite thermal energies far below the barrier's classical height.

• Stellar mass lossRelated: Outflows carry newly formed elements from stellar interiors into surrounding space.

• Baryonic matterRelated: Stars transform lighter baryonic nuclei into many heavier elements.

• S-processNarrower topic: The s-process is one pathway by which stars synthesize elements heavier than iron.

• StarRelated: Fusion in stellar interiors builds heavier elements and supplies energy.

• B2FH paperNarrower topic: The paper organized the known processes of element formation inside stars.

• Faint young Sun paradoxRelated: Fusion processes explain why the Sun’s luminosity rose as its core composition changed.

• Fine-tuningRelated: Changes to fundamental parameters could prevent stars from making the elements needed for planets and life.

• Primordial nucleosynthesisCompared with: It explains later element production, unlike the early-universe origin of primordial light nuclei.

• Stellar metallicityRelated: Stars create many of the heavy elements measured in later generations.

• Subrahmanyan ChandrasekharRelated: Nuclear reactions supplied the physical context for his studies of stellar interiors and evolution.

• Helium burningNarrower topic: Helium burning is one stage in the larger sequence of element-making reactions in stars.

• Helium flashNarrower topic: The flash initiates core fusion that builds carbon and oxygen from helium.

• Mass–luminosity relationRelated: Fusion in a star’s core supplies the energy that becomes its luminosity.