luminosity
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Both rotation velocity and luminosity are effective parameters to estimate the amount of gas accreted.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
“I have no medium that can give me color of such wonderful luminosity as the Autochrome plate,” wrote the photographer Edward Steichen in 1908.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
These fanciful instances benefit from Mari Fukuhara’s score, a drizzle of aural luminosity.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025
The Guardian's three star review said his "words glitter with feeling" and added that he "singularly shines, his luminosity putting the others slightly in the shade".
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
For nearby stars, we can measure their apparent brightness and their distance, and so we can work out their luminosity.
From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking
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