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corona

[kuh-roh-nuh] / kəˈroʊ nə /


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House had asked Walker the moment the glowing corona of totality disappeared and the sun re-emerged.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Against the unusually golden corona, the vivid pink structure made an already rare eclipse scene even more striking.

From Science Daily Aug. 20, 2026

Trudy Crielaard, a chemistry teacher who lives near Utrecht in the Netherlands, recalled trying to watch the eclipse in 1999 when clouds obscured the sun’s corona.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

This is the Sun's atmosphere - called the corona.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2026

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

"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

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

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

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

However, one of the few available approaches to analyze the composition of protein coronas requires instruments that many nanomedicine laboratories lack.

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

She mainly depicted the female form, drawing it with big, wiry loops surrounded by coronas of bright color.

From New York Times May 27, 2021

Eeben Axelroot’s airplane with coronas of flame dancing around the wings as it touched down on a field of waving pink grass.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver




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