Plasma Photos

‎13 photos related to Plasma, the most common form of matter. Plasma in the stars and in the space between them makes up 99%+ of the visible universe and perhaps most of that which is not visible. States of matter generally found on earth, known as ordinary matter, are solid, liquid, and gas. 
Sir William Crookes, an English physicist, identified a fourth state of matter, now called plasma, in 1879.

In this x-ray photo provided by NASA, the sun is shown early in the morning of Sunday, Aug. 1, 2010. The dark arc near the top right edge of the image is a filament of plasma blasting off the surface - part of the coronal mass ejection. The bright region is an unassociated solar flare.

This view of the Aurora Australis or Southern Lights, in the 80 - 120 km altitude region, (location unknown) shows a spiked and sinuous band of red and green airglow above the Earth Limb and a charged plasma glow around the orbiter.