corona

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Coronal Mass Ejections are huge bursts of charged plasma travelling at millions of miles an hour that explode out of the Sun's outer atmosphere or corona.

From BBC • Nov. 11, 2025

Using Cryo-NIRSP, his team followed the movement of iron in the corona, heated to an extraordinary 1.6 million degrees Celsius.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

The corona, visible during total solar eclipses, can exceed one million degrees Celsius -- hot enough to propel charged particles outward as the solar wind that fills our solar system.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

It even has a name: The Second Immortal Dinner, in which Blundy for the first time read his corona, a poem composed as a sequence of sonnets, that had been lost long ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2025

I wasn't paying attention to anything else—just trying to set the tableaux—and when Javi finally shuffled into position, the whole moon glowed behind him, casting a pale corona around his head.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely