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Giant balls of plasma would be more accurate but otherwise that is more or less true. Plasma is made of atoms that have lost their electrons.

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Well, they are extremely hot, so you might call them that. They are not fire in the earthly sense of combustion; they are much, much hotter and more powerful than that.

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Stars are made up mainly of plasma, which is similar to a gas - the main difference to a normal gas being that (due to the temperature) it is highly ionized.

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Yes. Plasma, actually - meaning that due to the high temperature, most of the atoms are ionized. Plasma is often considered a separate state of matter.

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Yes, stars are flaming balls of gas.

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Yes.

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