corona

Next week, CEA scientists will focus on the Sun's corona, the outermost layer of its atmosphere.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

The Sun's corona extends out for 10 million kilometres, and is a million times less intense than its surface, which is called the photosphere.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

But the corona can still reach up to two million degrees Celsius.

From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026

Although the team has confirmed that corona discharges occur in nature, many questions remain.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

The currency was called the corona, but he couldn’t tell any more than that.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

"Such widespread coronae have implications for the removal of hydrocarbons emitted by trees, subtle tree leaf damage and could have broader implications for the health of trees, forests and the atmosphere."

From Science Daily ● Apr. 21, 2026

Images of Miranda taken by the Voyager 2 spacecraft reveal enormous ridges and steep cliffs known as coronae.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026

Its crust consists of 75% lowland lava plains, numerous volcanic features, and many large coronae, which are the expression of subsurface volcanism.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

The circular features associated with coronae are tectonic ridges and cracks, and most of the mountains of Venus also owe their existence to tectonic forces.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

Miranda, one of the moons belonging to Uranus, features a patchwork of ridges and cliffs, grooved structures called coronae, and massive canyons up to twelve times deeper than the Grand Canyon.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

Who needs Parthenon or Birth of Venus when blue lights swirl low, pink coronas kiss clouds, neon greens arc, deep reds stripe across stars.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2023

To do this, my colleagues and I sent biologically identical protein coronas to 17 different labs in the U.S. for analysis.

From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2023

It was jacaranda season when I moved to the city, and simply to catch sight of those trees, with their lavender coronas, feels akin to coming home.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2022

Dresses came in truncated, tented taffeta beneath coronas of quivering leaf hats and as silver-embroidered lace tank gowns under slouchy matching cardigans, as easy as a nightgown and robe.

From New York Times ● Jan. 26, 2018

Beneath her fingernails, the frost makes billions of tiny diadems and coronas on the slats of the bench, a lattice of dumbfounding complexity.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr