solar physics

1. 1.

   the branch of astronomy that deals with the sun

   Broaderastronomy

Questions about solar physics

What does solar physics mean?

solar physics means "the branch of astronomy that deals with the sun".

Is solar physics a common word?

solar physics is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.