corona

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With this discovery, scientists may finally have an explanation for why the Sun's outer layer, the corona, reaches millions of degrees while its surface remains around 5,500°C.

From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025

"At present, models assume that the distribution of various elements in the corona is constant throughout space and time, which clearly isn't the case," said Benavitz.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 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 heightened chance of a UK sighting has been caused by a fast-moving coronal mass ejection, which is a "release of plasma and magnetic field from the Sun's corona", late on Saturday night.

From BBC • Sep. 1, 2025

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

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman