GENERAL CONCEPTS REGARDING THE ROLE OF PLASMA PROCESSES IN SPACE: THE EMERGENCE OF THE TERM “PLASMA ASTROPHYSICS”

Serhii Salata

Conference proceedings: Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Arbeiten «ΛΌГOΣ» zu den Materialien der IX internationalen wissenschaftlich-praktischen Konferenz «Grundlagen der modernen wissenschaftlichen Forschung» (Zürich, Schweizerische Eidgenossenschaft; 6. Februar, 2026)

Section: History, Archeology and Culturology

Publication date: 2026/02/06

Pages: 338-340

DOI: 10.36074/logos-06.02.2026.064

ISBN: 978-617-8440-87-9

Publisher: BOLESWA Publishers

Language: en

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Abstract

It is well established that the cosmos is predominantly composed of plasma. Only a very small fraction of matter in the Universe exists in a solid state, and an even smaller portion — in liquid form. Of course, not every gas is plasma, yet under cosmic conditions even regions consisting of neutral hydrogen or the atmospheres of cool stars — where the number of ionized atoms may be fewer than one per thousand neutral atoms — still exhibit plasma behavior.

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