Associations to the word «Facula»

Wiktionary

FACULA, noun. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots

Dictionary definition

FACULA, noun. A bright spot on a planet.
FACULA, noun. A large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope