facula

noun

fac·u·la ˈfa-kyə-lə

plural faculae ˈfa-kyə-ˌlē

-ˌlī

: any of the bright regions of the sun's photosphere seen most easily near the sun's edge

Examples of facula in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Four of the seven newly named features lie in the Caloris basin, shown above, where faculae take names from African languages of the Somalian, Igbo (of southeastern Nigeria), Arabic, and Afrikaans. —

Nola Taylor Redd, Science | AAAS, 9 Apr. 2018

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