photosphere

See also: photosphère

English

Etymology

From photo- +‎ -sphere.

Pronunciation

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Noun

photosphere (plural photospheres)

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

Derived terms

• photospheric
• pseudophotosphere

Translations

A visible surface layer of a star

• Afrikaans: fotosfeer
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Basque: fotosfera
• Catalan: fotosfera f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 光球 (zh) (guāngqiú)

• Danish: fotosfære c
• Finnish: fotosfääri (fi)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Photosphäre (de) f
• Greek: φωτόσφαιρα (el) f (fotósfaira)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: ljóshvolf n
• Japanese: 光球 (ja) (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
• Vietnamese: quang cầu (vi)

See also

• photon sphere (“a part of a black hole”)
• heliosphere
• astrosphere

Further reading

• photosphere on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “photosphere”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.