The Mysteries of the Solar Plasma

How new experiments in plasma physics, and the Parker Solar Probe, might unlock the Sun’s secret source of power.

Beautiful arcs above the solar surface called coronal loops that emit in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV).

Much of the luminous universe — not counting ‘dark’ stuff — is hydrogen, at millions of degrees, and billions of atmospheres, crushed inside stars. Electrons are splitting off atoms and emitting light in the process…