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Q: Is the sun's surface plasma or a gas?
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What does the suns surface look like?

It is a very bright mass of roiling gas or plasma.


Is proxima centauris surface a gas liquid solid or plasma?

Plasma.


Is Proxima Centauirs surface a gas liquid solid or plasma?

it isn't a solid, liquid, nor a gas. IT IS PLASMA :P


What gas makes up the majority of the suns surface?

Hydrogen.


Is the Suns core made out of plasma?

"The core is made of hot, dense gas in the plasmic state"


Is the suns surface a solid liquid or gas?

Most stars' surfaces are plasma. Plasma is the state of matter above gas, at which molecules move so rapidly that they generate an electric current. An example of plasma on Earth is lightning. Therefore, in layman terms, you could say that the sun's surface is made of lightning. Of course, that's not entirely accurate, but is certainly more so than liquid or gas.


What is the suns crust made of?

The Sun does not have a "crust"; the surface of the Sun is 12,000 degree-hot hydrogen plasma.


A dark area of gas on the suns surface that is cooler than surrounding gases?

It is called a sunspot.


Define the sun's convection zone?

A region of turbulent plasma between the suns core and its visible photosphere at the surface, through which energy is transferred by convection. In the convection zone, hot plasma rises, cools as it nears the surface, and falls to be heated and rise again.


What is the sun's prominience?

A prominence is when a solar flare ejects matter from the suns surface as a stream of incandescent gas.


Where plasma is present in the universe?

Plasma can occur anywhere where there is extreme heat, plasma is not a substance but the fourth state after solid, liquid and gas. It is effect superheated gas, an example is the glow on the nose of the shuttle as it re-enters the atmosphere, another is the surface of the sun.


Which phase of matter is the least common on earth?

Gas is the least common on Earth.