corona

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By blocking out the direct light coming from the Sun, the instrument can see light from the surrounding atmosphere, called the corona.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2025

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

With this discovery, scientists may finally have an explanation for why the Sun's outer layer, the corona, reaches millions of degrees while its surface remains around 5,500°C.

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

He shook it, trying to clear it, and the moths on his brow and cheeks took flight and fluttered around his head in a corona.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor