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
• 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
• 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
• The sun’s photosphere is full of millions of bubbles formed through convection.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 11 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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 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 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
• The outermost layers are the photosphere (the bright surface), the chromosphere (the transition region) and the corona.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 20 Feb. 2024
• The visible surface of the sun, the photosphere, has a temperature of about 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
  — William Harwood, CBS News, 31 May 2017
• As far as is known, no comets have ever actually been seen to hit the solar surface, or the photosphere, the European Space Agency said.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 21 Dec. 2020
• 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
• The Parker probe saw the entire thing—from the CME's generation, to its emission from the sun's surface (or photosphere), to its propagation in the space between our star and our planet.
  — Rebecca Boyle, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• Even when 99 percent of the sun's surface (the photosphere) is obscured during the partial phases of a solar eclipse, the remaining crescent Sun is still intense enough to cause a retinal burn.
  — Leada Gore, AL.com, 4 Aug. 2017
• 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 resulting shocks and pulsations were powerful enough to produce an SME, blasting a massive chunk of the star's photosphere into space.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Aug. 2022
• 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
• These Texas-size granules cover nearly the entire photosphere.
  — Brian T. Jacobs, National Geographic, 24 Aug. 2021
• These are where large, beautiful plasma loops — commonly seen as solar prominences — extend far away from the Sun’s photosphere and can even enter the Sun’s corona.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 8 June 2021
• 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
• 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
• This type of photography is an incredible challenge due to the overwhelming light of the photosphere below.
  — Mike Wehner, BGR, 8 Mar. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The findings last year showed that an outer layer of the star, called the photosphere, had begun unevenly accelerating outward right before Betelgeuse began to dim.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Wired, 18 June 2021
• This instrument will measure magnetic and electric fields in the sun's atmosphere to help scientists better understand why the corona is so much hotter than the photosphere.
  — Elizabeth Howell, Space.com, 25 Sep. 2018
• This set of magnetometers will measure magnetic variation throughout the spacecraft's orbit, which rangers from out beyond Venus to a close distance of 9 solar radii, or only 3.85 million miles from the photosphere.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2018

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024