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
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
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
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
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
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