Shaheda Begum Shaik

A total solar eclipse offers rare minutes when the Moon blocks the Sun's bright disk, revealing its outer atmosphere — the corona. In white light, the corona extends tens of solar radii, and images show fine structures: vortex rings, waves like ripples on water, and huge plasma ejections.

The solar corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, stretches millions of kilometers, yet it's visible only during a total eclipse or with specialized instruments. Typically, we gauge the corona's density by how it scatters white light, but that method relies on simplifications that can skew the results.