Astronomy Answers: From the Astronomical Dictionary

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From the Astronomical Dictionary


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the granulation

granulus = [Latin] small grain

Granulation covers almost all of the visible surface of the Sun. It resembles rice pudding, with bright "rice grains", called granules, that are separated from one another by a network of dark lanes, called intergranular lanes.