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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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Eta CarinaeRelated: Material expelled by Eta Carinae carries products of nuclear processing into its surroundings.

• Population II starRelated: Earlier stellar nucleosynthesis supplied the heavier elements in Population II birth clouds.

• Blue supergiantRelated: Fusion supplies the energy that sustains the star’s luminosity.

• Presolar grainRelated: Grain isotope ratios provide direct samples of stellar nucleosynthesis products.

• Carbon-based lifeRelated: Stellar processes created the carbon later incorporated into planets and living matter.

• Stellar astronomyRelated: Fusion inside stars powers them and builds many of the elements they later disperse.

• SupergiantRelated: Advanced fusion stages in massive supergiants build elements beyond those made by ordinary hydrogen burning.

• Universe (cosmology)Related: Most elements beyond the lightest primordial nuclei arose through processes in cosmic generations of stars.

• Allan SandageRelated: Nuclear-fuel models underpin the stellar-evolution calculations used to infer cluster ages.

• Big HistoryRelated: It explains how stars produced the elements needed for planets and life.

• Composition of astronomical objectsRelated: Stellar abundance patterns record the nuclear processes that produced heavier elements.

• CW LeonisRelated: Dredged-up carbon connects the star’s composition to element production in evolved stars.

• Edwin E. SalpeterRelated: Salpeter calculated how nuclear reactions in stars build heavier elements.

• Formation and evolution of stars and galaxiesRelated: Stars produce and disperse many of the elements that later enrich galaxies.

• HypernovaRelated: Explosive burning during a hypernova can synthesize and disperse heavy elements.

• List of interstellar and circumstellar moleculesRelated: Circumstellar molecules can carry elements processed and expelled by stars.

• NGC 7027Related: The nebula's enriched gas records elements processed in its progenitor star.

• Timeline of the far futureRelated: The dwindling supply of star-forming gas helps explain why future star formation will decline.