corona

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Recent Examples of corona The sky darkens, stars come out as the blaze of the Sun's corona becomes visible. Jonathan Lambert, NPR, 13 Feb. 2025 This latest flyby marks the spacecraft's 23rd close flyby and brings it deeper into the corona than ever before. David Faris, Newsweek, 27 Dec. 2024 From their own separate polar orbit, the satellites will observe the sun's corona, or outer atmosphere, and the resulting solar wind. CBS News, 11 Mar. 2025 But in a wonderful bit of cosmic serendipity, the moon is also 400 times closer to us, which results in the solar and lunar disks appearing to be exactly the same size in our sky, making for a perfect fit, with only the sun’s corona—or fires—flaring out from behind the moon during totality. Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 11 Mar. 2025 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 16 Apr. 2025.

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