How to Use coronal in a Sentence

coronal

adjective
  • Earth is in the line of fire of a series of coronal holes.
    Kyle Stock, Bloomberg.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • It all got started with a hole in the Sun — a coronal hole, to be more precise.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The Earth is directly in the path of two coronal mass ejections.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The largest explosions on the sun are called coronal mass ejections or CMEs.
    Dean Regas, The Enquirer, 11 Aug. 2021
  • In fact, coronal mass ejections may be the rarest of these solar eruptions.
    Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
  • All three events launched fast coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Jan. 2017
  • During the change, sometimes the wind can come out in big bursts, known as coronal mass ejections, or solar storms.
    Morgan Krakow, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Nov. 2021
  • The second, and less magnificent, cause is a coronal hole, which is the source of high-speed solar wind streams.
    Detroit Free Press, 24 Mar. 2023
  • The coronal holes are cooler and less dense relative to the plasma that surrounds them.
    Jacquelyne Germain, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
  • Solar flares and coronal holes on the sun spray streams of high-speed particles into space.
    Kelly Smith, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • According to Richter, this was just a routine coronal scan.
    Ashley Hoffman, Time, 19 Dec. 2019
  • And the data from Fields suggest that the slow wind is coming from coronal holes as well, but from smaller ones near the solar equator.
    Mike Wall, Scientific American, 4 Dec. 2019
  • That’s because the chance of both a solar eclipse and a coronal ejection occurring in tandem are slight.
    Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 17 Aug. 2017
  • Two coronal mass ejections erupted from the Sun on August 14 and August 15.
    Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 Aug. 2022
  • Sometimes these flares blow whole chunks of the sun’s outer layers into space, in events called coronal mass ejections.
    New York Times, 28 May 2021
  • According to a press release from UC Berkeley, during each pass of the sun, the probe was able to park 15 million miles above a coronal hole for up to a week at a time about.
    Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The strongest fields cause coronal discharges — brief bursts of visible light.
    Mike McKinnon, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Sometimes, our star will belch out intense streams of plasma, known as coronal mass ejections.
    Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 June 2017
  • Our own star, the Sun, sometimes launches huge clouds of plasma into space called coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2022
  • The sun's poles are pockmarked with dark, constantly shifting coronal holes.
    NBC News, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The sun’s poles are pockmarked with dark, constantly shifting coronal holes.
    Washington Post, 10 Feb. 2020
  • The sun regularly shoots material out into the void of space, and the largest of these blasts are known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2017
  • Solar winds and bubbles of coronal plasma emerge as bursts of brass, with little flares of light registering as sweeps of harp.
    Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • Extreme space weather is driven by huge eruptions of plasma from the Sun, called coronal mass ejections (CMEs).
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 20 May 2021
  • For instance, the flares Omodei and his team observed also produced fast coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
    National Geographic, 14 Feb. 2017
  • The coronal hole flare-ups are expected to continue through Wednesday.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 31 Oct. 2022
  • And when the rotation of the Sun on its axis points a coronal hole toward Earth, we can get bombarded by a speedier wind than normal.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 1 Dec. 2022
  • The coronal holes are somewhat cooler sections of the sun's outer layer, reports The Washington Post.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, Peoplemag, 31 Oct. 2022
  • Powerful solar flares, or coronal mass ejections (CMEs), are part of the sun’s weather cycle.
    Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • But what about during big solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs) that are unpredictable, but do happen?
    Jamie Carter, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2021

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