Solar Photosphere

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke2015s&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 2015. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Sun, Solar Atmosphere

Scientific paper

The photosphere (Gr φως, light) of the Sun are those layers in its atmosphere that one observes in white light (broad band visible light). An image in such light (figure 1) shows a sharp edge, as if the light were emitted from a single layer, the `visible surface' of the Sun. Since stars are gaseous, they do not have sharp surfaces, however. Moreover, the radiation at different wavelengths is gen...

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