The solar wind generates an immense sheet of electrical current that spirals like a ballerina's skirt as the Sun rotates. The Sun itself, all other stars in our galaxy, and colossal exploding jets from distant galaxies. He believed that the effects of electricity and magnetism played important roles in many astrophysical domains. He received the Nobel Prize in 1970 for his contributions to basic plasma physics and for his studies of space plasmas . Plasma , like ordinary matter, is made up of atoms.
Atoms are so tiny that more than a million can fit across the head of a pin.
When gases are exposed to enough heat or other radiation , their electrically neutral atoms split into positively charged fragments called ions and negatively charged free electrons. Because plasma consists of electrically charged particles, it acts very differently from ordinary forms of gas. A field is an influence or force that exists throughout space, that one body exerts on another. Gravity is one such field. All matter responds to gravity, but if matter is electrically charged or contains currents, it also responds to electric and magnetic forces.