EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -NASA. The surface of the Sun is called the photosphere, a term which means “sphere of light.” The glowing ball of light that you see in the sky is the photosphere.

Detailed explanation-2: -The part of the Sun commonly called its surface is the photosphere. The word photosphere means “light sphere” – which is apt because this is the layer that emits the most visible light. It’s what we see from Earth with our eyes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The photosphere is the lowest layer of the sun’s atmosphere-the innermost layer we can observe directly. The term photosphere means “sphere of light” and is the layer where most of the sun’s energy is emitted.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Outer Solar Atmosphere. The visible photosphere, or sphere of light, is the level of the solar atmosphere from which we get our light and heat, and it is the part that we can see with our eyes. The thin chromosphere and extensive corona lie above the visible sharp edge of the photosphere.

Detailed explanation-5: -The layers below the photosphere produce a lot of light but they are too thick to allow it to escape rapidly, and the layers above are thin enough to allow light to escape, but too thin to produce much light. Negative hydrogen ions (H-) are the primary reason for the highly opaque nature of the photosphere.