brightness

Instead of a smooth rise and fall, the brightness repeatedly traced something resembling a triangle.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Astronomers study changes in an object's brightness using a graph called a light curve.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

Changes in the material's orbit, along with additional collisions, could cause the infrared brightness to rise and fall over time.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

But their unrelieved brightness and utter lack of texture have the bland flatness of plastic, and render them lifeless.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

All around her are the foothills, a dark enormous green, the sky more a brightness than a color.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Using data from the Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope, the researchers collected brightnesses for millions of stars in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two of the closest galaxies to Earth.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 15, 2023

This, they said, was consistent with quasars of different "brightnesses," meaning with varying strength to their radio emissions.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

‘Pray,’ they said, and I laughed, covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses, and then stole off gray into the midst of a revel, and prayed like an orphan.

From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021

Besides dramatically boosting the total number of known FRB events, the observations also revealed a very wide range of brightnesses among the recorded events, offering new clues about the astrophysical nature of their mysterious source.

From Scientific American ● Oct. 13, 2021

I look at the moons one more time, the smaller one chasing the larger one, two brightnesses up there, still light enough to cast shadows, ignorant of the troubles of men.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness