photosphere
noun
a sphere of light or radiance.
photospheric
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a word derived from
photosphere.
Example Sentences
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Which of the planets in our solar system have orbits that are smaller than the photospheric radius of Betelgeuse listed in in Table 22.2?
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
In Faye's theory, sun-spots were regarded as simply breaks in the photospheric clouds, where the rising currents had strength to tear them asunder.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
They have been compared to immense waves—vast upheavals of photospheric matter, indicative of enormous pressure, and often extending in length for many thousands of miles.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
Yet it was but the burned-out sweepings of the outermost photospheric layers of this giant sun, and the radioactive atoms that made a sun active were not here; it was a cold planet.
From Invaders from the Infinite by John Wood Campbell
When a sun-spot has completed its period of existence, the photospheric matter overwhelms the penumbra, and rushes into the umbra, which it obliterates, causing the spot to disappear.
From The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' by Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
