corona

Examples

• All

• For example, the solar corona appeared very weak when observed at eclipses during that period.

  Academic text (1991)

• The shape of the corona varies continuously and is thus different at each successive eclipse.

  Academic text (1991)

• Do you realize you can actually see part of the solar corona from here?

  Fiction book (1991)

• The structure of the corona is maintained by the magnetic field of the Sun.

  Academic text (1991)

• Among the major conclusions of the research is that the corona is much more dynamic than we had thought.

  Academic text (1991)

• Photographs of the corona show that it is very irregular in form.

  Academic text (1991)

• The latest thinking is that the corona is composed entirely of these loops.

  Academic text (1991)

• Close to the solar limb, the corona's temperature is about 2,000,000 K.

  Academic text (1991)

• At the onset of totality, the Sun's corona extended its crepuscular fingers across the ash tinted sky.

• During the solar eclipse, the corona appeared as a shimmering halo around the Sun.

Synonyms

A

aureole

vscorona

• Specialized

9.7

A bright white halo seen around the sun during a solar eclipse

is the same outer region described without emphasizing brightness

Compounds

C

Corona Borealis

9.5

A small group of stars in the northern sky that forms a half circle like a crown

C

corona discharge

• Specialized

7.9

A faint glow around a high-voltage wire when the air becomes charged

How Far

interstellar space

• Specialized

4 6.0

heliopause

• Specialized

1 9.9

heliosphere

• Specialized

2 9.9

solar wind

• Specialized

14 5.4

corona

• Specialized

9 8.3

Sun

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology