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
The corona took on an unusually rich golden hue.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 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
He stood watching life proceed at an exaggerated rate outside the shimmering corona.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
"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
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
Sword ferns, their leaves delicate and precise, formed coronas at the base of the massive spruce trunks.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
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
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