corona

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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

"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

Unlike the water that falls from clouds on Earth, solar rain takes place in the Sun's corona, the outermost layer made of intensely hot plasma.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025

I wasn't paying attention to anything else—just trying to set the tableaux—and when Javi finally shuffled into position, the whole moon glowed behind him, casting a pale corona around his head.

From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely