corona

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Recent Examples of corona Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the Solar cycle, Not a sunspot was stirring, not even a burst; The stockings were all hung by the corona with care, In hopes that the Parker Solar Probe would soon be there. Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 19 Dec. 2024 The spacecraft's instruments captured the sun's grainy surface in visible light while also mapping its magnetic field, tracking the direction hot material on the surface is flowing and snapping a mesmerizing image in ultraviolet light of the sun's outermost layer, known as the corona. Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024 This record-breaking feat was conducted by the Parker Solar Probe, which flew to within 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) of the sun, braving the blistering heat of our star's outer atmosphere, the corona. Robert Lea, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024 These are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic fields from the sun's atmosphere known as the corona. Jordan Green, The Tennessean, 11 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for corona 

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“Corona.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/corona. Accessed 5 Jan. 2025.

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