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stellar atmosphere

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outer region of the volume of a star

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Subclass of
atmosphere
Part of
star
Has part
photosphere
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Photo taken in France during the 1999 solar eclipse The stellar atmosphere is the outer region of the volume of a star, lying above the stellar core, radiation zone and convection zone.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stellar atmosphere” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.