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

This points to changes in how the accretion disk and corona interact over roughly the last 6.5 billions of years.

From Science Daily • Dec. 27, 2025

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

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

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

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman