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a glowing crown around the sun, hijacked by a beer and a virus.
means A halo or crown-shaped ring of light, especially the glowing outer atmosphere of the sun visible during a total eclipse; by extension, any crown-like structure.
from Straight from Latin 'corona,' meaning 'crown' or 'wreath' — the laurel circle pressed onto victors and emperors. Latin likely borrowed it from Greek 'korōnē,' which named something curved: a crow, a curved beak, the hooked end of a bow. The same root crowns English 'coronation' and 'coronary' (the arteries that wreathe the heart). Astronomers reached for it because the sun's outer glow rings the dark moon like a king's headpiece — and from that solar crown, both a Mexican beer and a now-infamous family of viruses (named for the crown-like spikes ringing each particle) inherited the word.
- sun's halo
- the corona is hotter than the sun's surface
- latin roots
- the word simply means crown
- eclipse reveal
- only visible to eyes during total solar eclipses
- million degrees
- reaches temperatures over a million kelvin
corona virus disease 2019 — pandemic that began in wuhan, china in december 2019, causing over 7 million deaths globally
corona beer — mexican lager brewed by grupo modelo since 1925, typically served with lime
solar corona — the sun's outer atmosphere, visible as a halo during total solar eclipses