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More or less, yes - the googlable term for it is 'photosphere'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosphere

there's also a bit of an illusion of scale, you're looking at bumps and protrusions that are multiple-earth-diameters-sized.



Thank you! I suppose the spherical shape around a gravity well, from where the majority of an object’a photons originate, is correctly called a photosphere.

I am currently standing on Earth’s photosphere!




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