Breakwater, artificial offshore structure protecting a harbour, anchorage, or marina basin from water waves. Breakwaters intercept longshore currents and tend to prevent beach erosion.
photosphere. luminous, apparently opaque layer of gases that forms the visible surface of the sun sun,intensely hot, self-luminous body of gases at the center of the solar system.
Sunlight as we know it-the visible white light, is emitted from the photosphere. The photosphere is one of the coolest regions of the Sun (about 6000 K), and it is here that we can see the granulation caused by the bubbling gas in the convection layer and the sunspots caused by strong magnetic fields.