corona
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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
One of the most enduring mysteries that has been puzzling scientists forever is how the Sun's outer atmosphere - the corona - is millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026
With two hours to go, the eclipse-hunters congregated on the westward-facing slope of Picón, clutching the glasses that would make it safe to look at the sun’s corona.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Topics will include the Sun and its corona, the famous eclipse that helped transform our understanding of gravity, and ESA's work to create artificial solar eclipses in space.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 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
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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