How to Use photosphere in a Sentence

photosphere

noun

• The image on the right, acquired at the same time, is a kind of magnetic map of the photosphere.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 20 Apr. 2014
• The sun’s photosphere is full of millions of bubbles formed through convection.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
• This one shows the first images of the photosphere, the lowest layer of the sun's atmosphere.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• Where the rope comes up from the solar surface is one sunspot and where the rope plunges into the photosphere is another sunspot.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2017
• The shocks and pulsations blasted off a chunk of the photosphere, leaving a cool surface area under a cloud of dust.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 12 Aug. 2022
• Sunspots occur where intense magnetic field lines loop out through the churning photosphere and block the rise of hot granules.
  — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The piece of Betelgeuse’s photosphere, which weighed several times as much as the moon, was released into space.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
• They are anchored to the sun's photosphere and extend into its hot upper atmosphere, known as the corona.
  — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 5 Nov. 2025
• Sunspots are cooler patches of the sun created by magnetic fields looping out through the photosphere.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 26 Mar. 2026
• If skies are clear, observers will be able to see the sun’s halo-like corona, which is usually obscured by the brightness of the photosphere.
  — Deborah Netburn, latimes.com, 20 July 2017
• These Texas-size granules cover nearly the entire photosphere.
  — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
• The plume created shocks and pulsations that triggered an eruption, peeling off a chunk of the star’s outer shell called the photosphere.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 12 Aug. 2022
• The image above reveals the glowing, churning hot plasma comprising the sun's photosphere.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2024
• By the time this acceleration reached its peak, the photosphere was moving at about seven kilometers a second.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 14 Aug. 2020
• That material came from the planet itself, which likely passed through the star’s outer photosphere before falling to its demise.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 11 May 2023
• Like water boiling in a pot, plasma cells, or granules, carry heat to the sun’s glowing and visible surface, the photosphere.
  — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
• These features are rooted in the photosphere and stretch outward into the Sun's hot outer atmosphere, known as the corona.
  — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 May 2025
• The visible light image of the photosphere showcases sunspots, which resemble holes on the solar surface.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 20 Nov. 2024
• This type of photography is an incredible challenge due to the overwhelming light of the photosphere below.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
• The area of plasma, or highly ionized gas, extends thousands of kilometers above the sun’s visible surface, called the photosphere.
  — Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Despite their great temperatures, dwarf stars can and do harbor water molecules in their own atmospheres – their photospheres.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
• The photosphere appears black at these wavelengths, because that region is not nearly hot enough to shine brightly in extreme ultraviolet.
  — Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 11 Aug. 2013
• But just a few hundred miles above the photosphere, in the star's corona, the temperature suddenly jumps to several million degrees.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 31 May 2017
• The scientists paired this data with measurements of the photosphere in the same stretch of the sun taken by the co-observing Hinode satellite.
  — Chris Wright, Wired, 15 Mar. 2021
• The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere, the transition region and the corona.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• At its peak, the photosphere was moving at around 7 kilometers per second, reversing the outward push as the dimming of the star became more dramatic.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 18 June 2021
• The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere (the transition region) and the corona.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• At that moment, the comet will pass just 99,000 miles (159,300 km) from the solar photosphere.
  — Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2026
• In Visible Light This image of the sun's surface — its photosphere — was taken in visible light.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
• Coronal mass ejections are the largest, connecting the photosphere to the corona, where reconnection can cause an enormous release of energy.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021