corona
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A corona of cosmic doom shades the horizon of “Miss Wolcott’s Ghost.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026
During a total solar eclipse, the Moon completely blocks the bright disk of the Sun, making the much fainter solar corona visible.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 20, 2026
Far away from the core is the Sun's outermost layer or corona where the temperature is about 2 million C - it can sometimes go up to 40 million C.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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