In astronomy, a corona (pl.: coronas or coronae) is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere. It is a hot but relatively dim region of plasma populated...

Look up corona or Corona in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to: Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere...

These high-energy stellar winds blow stellar wind bubbles. G-type stars like the Sun have a wind driven by their hot, magnetized corona. The Sun's wind...

and titanium oxide. The outermost part of the stellar atmosphere, or upper stellar atmosphere, is the corona, a tenuous plasma which has a temperature above...

image reminiscent of the stellar corona, from which their name derives. The name "coronavirus" is derived from Latin corona, meaning "crown" or "wreath"...

magnetic field lines that stretch out into the stellar corona. These in turn serve to heat the corona to temperatures over a million kelvins. The magnetic...

Light from a Hot Stellar Corona Detected with the VLT" (Press release). ESO. 1 August 2001. Retrieved 10 July 2006. "What Is the Sun's Corona? | NASA Space...

shape resembling a stellar corona, such as that of the Sun visible during a total solar eclipse; corona is derived from Latin corōna 'garland, wreath,...

1944, Walter Baade categorized groups of stars within the Milky Way into stellar populations. In the abstract of the article by Baade, he recognizes that...

Stellar parallax is the apparent shift of position (parallax) of any nearby star (or other object) against the background of distant stars. By extension...

Compact objects are often the endpoints of stellar evolution and, in this respect, are also called stellar remnants. They can also be called dead stars...

completely obscures the bright light of the Sun, allowing the much fainter solar corona to be visible. During an eclipse, totality occurs only along a narrow track...

telescopes is the basis for many fields of astronomy, including photometry and stellar spectroscopy. Hipparchus did not have a telescope or any instrument that...

In astrophysics, stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred...

corona and lack a convection zone in their outer atmosphere. They have a higher mass loss rate than smaller stars such as the Sun, and their stellar wind...

primary layers: the photosphere, the chromosphere, and the corona. The chromosphere and corona are separated by a thin transition region that is frequently...

separating a star's corona from the stellar wind defined as where the coronal plasma's Alfvén speed and the large-scale stellar wind speed are equal...

Young stellar object (YSO) denotes a star in its early stage of evolution. This class consists of two groups of objects: protostars and pre-main-sequence...

appears in a Michigan valley Plasma globe – Decorative electrical device Stellar Corona – Outermost layer of a star's atmosphere Triboelectric effect – Charge...

Stellar structure models describe the internal structure of a star in detail and make predictions about the luminosity, the color and the future evolution...

Features Baily's beads (diamond ring) Shadow bands Solar prominence Stellar corona helmet streamer Lists of eclipses Total/hybrid eclipses → next total/hybrid...

Bayer, Flamsteed, HR, or Draper (not from the supplements) designation. Stellar extremes or otherwise noteworthy stars. Notable variable stars (prototypes...

dwarfs, and white dwarfs which are much more common, the latter being stellar remnants). A G-type main-sequence star with the mass of the Sun will fuse...

this particular scenario would be the more intense light and the shorter stellar lifespan of the home star. F-type stars are known to emit much higher energy...

Features Baily's beads (diamond ring) Shadow bands Solar prominence Stellar corona helmet streamer Lists of eclipses Total/hybrid eclipses → next total/hybrid...

A stellar core is the extremely hot, dense region at the center of a star. For an ordinary main sequence star, the core region is the volume where the...

Observatory. For low-mass stars X-rays are generated by the heating of the stellar corona through magnetic reconnection, while for high-mass O and early B-type...

1×1014 kilometres; 1.9×1014 miles). Therefore, it is of greater use in stellar astrophysics since it refers to a property of a star regardless of how...

Star count, survey of stars E. Mamajek (2022-04-16). "A Modern Mean Dwarf Stellar Color and Effective Temperature Sequence". Retrieved 2022-05-14. Steigerwald...

A stellar-wind bubble is a cavity light-years across filled with hot gas blown into the interstellar medium by the high-velocity (several thousand km/s)...