In Pursuit of Plasma Power: Hot Stuff, Snowstorms, and Starry Skies - NIST Taking Measure Blog

In Pursuit of Plasma Power: Hot Stuff, Snowstorms, and Starry Skies - NIST Taking Measure Blog

In Pursuit of Plasma Power: Hot Stuff, Snowstorms, and Starry Skies

09/15/2016 09:00 AM EDT

Do we really need hot stuff? I’m not talking about Donna Summer’s disco hit of 1979 or global warming. I’m not talking about anything so lukewarm as the surface of our sun — a mere 6,000 kelvins. I don’t even mean something as hot as 1,000,000 kelvins. No, the kind of hot stuff I’m talking about is closer to an unimaginable 200,000,000 kelvins! What possible use could we have for something so hot?

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