A sphere is a three-dimensional object shaped like a ball; it may also refer to a sphere-like region or shell.

Sphere may also refer to:

Astronomy

  • Armillary sphere, a physical model of the celestial sphere
  • Celestial sphere, the astronomical description of the sky
  • Celestial spheres or planetary spheres, refer to a geocentric model of the universe and the associated postulate of a "Musica Universalis" (Music of the Spheres)
  • Dyson sphere, a hypothetical megastructure that encompasses a star and captures a large percentage of its solar power output
  • Hill sphere, the spherical region around an astronomical body where the primary gravitational influence on an orbiting object is that body
  • Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research (SPHERE) is an adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at the Very Large Telescope (VLT)
  • Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), similar to the Hill sphere, but smaller, only about 60% of the radius
  • Sphere of influence (black hole), a region around a supermassive black hole
  • SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient Experimental Satellites), a formation flight testbed developed by MIT's Space Systems Laboratory
  • SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer), a proposed space telescope

Human sciences

  • Separate spheres, an ideological term referring to separation between a private sphere and a public sphere in some societies
  • Sphere of influence, a metaphorical region of influence surrounding a country, person or concept

Mathematics

  • n-sphere, the set of points at fixed distance from a central point in n+1 dimensional space
  • Spherical surface, the boundary of a sphere (also known simply as sphere in mathematics)
  • Spherical volume, the region inside a sphere (also known as a ball in mathematics)
  • Unit sphere, the set of points at a distance of 1 from a central point

Arts, entertainment, and media

Architecture

  • Sunsphere
  • The Sphere, a bronze sculpture at Liberty Park, New York City

Films

  • Sphere (1998 film), a film based on Crichton's 1987 novel, starring Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, and Samuel L. Jackson
  • Sphere (2013 film), an animated short film

Literature

  • Sphere (novel), a 1987 science-fiction novel by Michael Crichton
  • Spheres trilogy, three books by the philosopher Peter Sloterdijk
  • De sphaera mundi (The Sphere), a medieval astronomy book by Johannes de Sacrobosco
  • The Sphere (newspaper), a British weekly newspaper which ran between 1900 and 1964

Music

Groups

  • Sphere (American band), American jazz ensemble
  • Sphere (Japanese band), a Japanese pop idol unit
  • Sphere (Polish band), a death metal band from Poland

Albums and songs

  • Sphere (album), a 1997 album by the American jazz group Sphere
  • Sphere, a 2005 album by noise music artist Merzbow
  • "Sphere", a song by John Frusciante and Josh Klinghoffer from their album A Sphere in the Heart of Silence (2004)
  • Spheres (Delerium album)
  • "Spheres" (instrumental), a 2007 single by Mike Oldfield
  • Spheres (Pestilence album), 1993
  • Spheres, an album by Daniel Hope
  • Spheres 2, a 1994 album by Delerium

Other uses

  • Sphere, a parameter in prescribing corrective lenses
  • Silver Sphere (born 1999), American singer-songwriter
  • Sphere, an extraterrestrial artificial intelligence that allies with humans from Independence Day: Resurgence
  • Spheres (TV series), a Korean animation
  • Sphere (organization), a project launched in 1997 to develop a set of minimum standards in core areas of humanitarian assistance
  • Sphere (website), a blog search engine
  • Sphere, a rumored internal development name for the PlayStation Move controller
  • Sphere 1, one of the earliest personal computers
  • Sphere Books, a British paperback-publisher from the 1960s to the 1980s and the 2000s to today
  • Sphere (venue), a sphere-shaped entertainment venue in Paradise, Nevada
  • The Sphere (social network), an online network for renting luxury properties
  • The Spheres, a fictional planetary system in Coldplay's album Music of the Spheres

See also

  • Sfera (disambiguation)
  • Sphering (disambiguation)