A corona is produced by the diffraction of light from either the Sun or the Moon through a cloud of water droplets. It consists of a series of concentric colored rings which appear around the celestial object but which are actually at cloud height. Coronae differ from haloes in that the latter are formed by refraction from ice crystals. Reddish colors always occupy the outer part of a corona's ring.
The corona is the luminous "atmosphere" of the Sun extending millions of kilometers into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.
An interesting feature of the corona is the fact that it is much hotter than the visible "surface" of the Sun; the photosphere is approximately 6000°C compared to the corona at over one million °C. The corona is much less dense than the photosphere, however, and so produces less light. The exact mechanism by which the corona is heated is still the subject of some debate, but likely possibilities include induction by the Sun's magnetic field and sonic pressure waves from below. The outer edges of the sun's corona are constantly being lost as solar wind.
During periods of quiet Sun the corona is more or less confined to the equatorial regions, with "coronal holes" covering the polar regions. During the Sun's active periods, the corona is evenly distributed over the equatorial and polar regions, though it is most prominent in areas with sunspot activity.
Generated by solar flares or large solar prominences[?], "coronal transients" are sometimes released. These are enormous loops of coronal material travelling outward from the Sun at over a million kilometers per hour, containing roughly 10 times the energy of the solar flare or prominence that triggered them.
A corona discharge is an electrical discharge brought on by the ionization of gas surrounding a conductor, which occurs when the potential gradient exceeds a certain vale but isn't sufficient to cause sparking.
Corona is a beer brewed in Mexico by the Modelo Group.
Corona was a US spy satellite program.
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