corona

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The astronauts will then have the chance to study the solar corona, the outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere, which will become visible as a sort of glowing halo.

From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026

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

Using Cryo-NIRSP, his team followed the movement of iron in the corona, heated to an extraordinary 1.6 million degrees Celsius.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

Researchers have made a major leap in solar physics by finding the first direct evidence of small-scale torsional Alfvén waves within the Sun's corona.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 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