corona

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In other words, the coronagraph acts like an artificial Moon, blocking the Sun's bright surface to let scientists continuously observe its faint outer corona -something the real Moon does only during eclipses.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 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

Unlike the water that falls from clouds on Earth, solar rain takes place in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer made of intensely hot plasma.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025

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

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman