photosphere

See also: photosphère

English

Etymology

photo- +‎ -sphere

Noun

photosphere (plural photospheres)

(astronomy) A visible surface layer of a star, and especially that of a sun.

Translations

A visible surface layer of a star

Basque: fotosfera
Catalan: fotosfera f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 光球 (zh) (guāngqiú)
German: Photosphäre (de) f
Greek: φωτόσφαιρα (el) f (fotósfaira)
Icelandic: ljóshvolf n
Japanese: 光球 (こうきゅう, kōkyū)
Korean: 광구 (ko) (gwanggu)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: fotosfære (no) m

Nynorsk: fotosfære m
Polish: fotosfera (pl)
Portuguese: fotosfera f
Russian: фотосфе́ра (ru) f (fotosféra)
Spanish: fotosfera f
Tagalog: sugbulog

Further reading

“photosphere” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

See also

photon sphere (a part of a black hole)

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