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The layer of a star from which most of its visible light escapes, appearing as its surface.
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- solar photosphere
- stellar photosphere
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Dark sunspots interrupted the glowing photosphere.
The telescope resolved a mottled pattern across the star’s photosphere.
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular: photosphere; plural: photospheres. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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