corona

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The findings suggest the black hole is growing at an extreme pace while still maintaining an active corona and a powerful jet.

From Science Daily • Jan. 24, 2026

In other words, the coronagraph acts like an artificial Moon, blocking the Sun's bright surface to let scientists continuously observe its faint outer corona -something the real Moon does only during eclipses.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

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

The corona, visible during total solar eclipses, can exceed one million degrees Celsius -- hot enough to propel charged particles outward as the solar wind that fills our solar system.

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