Sun Corona

The ring of light to be seen around the new moon in cancer which eclipsed the sun this morning was the aura of the sun called corona, or crown.

The reason for the sun and moon to look the same size being that the sun is 400 times further and the moon is 400 times smaller, making a perfect match for a few seconds... 

displaying the beautiful sun corona...

Sun Eclipse today when the Corona could be seen

The Sun CORONA IS HOTTER than layers underneath and a subject of study now underway with the Parker Probe sent in 2018 to gather information close to the sun, 6 millions kilometres away from the corona, which is the closest ever any satellite travelled to the sun.

The probe will last 7 years and will loop around Venus seven times... not sure Venus or the Sun were consulted for the inconvenience... and why the Covid-19 would be called corona, the protective aura of a star is a mystery, even though some areas of the sun surface pattern look similar to the virus shape, not such a valorising choice of words...