Why Plasma Is the Crown of the Solar Eclipse

Thursday, August 17, 2017 - 11:02 in Astronomy & Space

The wisps of light emanating from the solar disk during this year's total eclipse are plumes of hot, charged gas called plasma from the sun's corona. And plasma physicists are ecstatic at the chance to study this fourth state of matter.

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