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
• 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, 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
• 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
• 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
• That friendly yellow photosphere boils like oatmeal and is pocked with dark magnetic storms (the infamous sunspots) that crackle, whirl and lash space with showers of electrical particles and radiation.
  — New York Times, 28 May 2021
• In addition, there’s a tenuous, very hot plasma separated from the photosphere: the Sun’s corona, which is hundreds of thousands of kelvin, and the Sun’s chaotic, irregular magnetic field frequently connects the two.
  — Ethan Siegel, Forbes, 26 Feb. 2021

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024