solar facula vs maculation

solar facula and maculation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
solar facula	Yes	No	No	No
maculation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, maculation is a hypernym of solar facula; that is, maculation is a word with a broader meaning than solar facula:

solar facula: a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots
maculation: a small contrasting part of something

Other hypernyms of solar facula include dapple, fleck, patch, speckle, spot.

solar facula (noun)	maculation (noun)
a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots	the act of spotting or staining something
	a small contrasting part of something