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The distinction may also help explain why some of the disks fluctuate more dramatically in infrared brightness.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

Silica-poor disks, however, occur around stars spanning a much wider range of ages and tend to show stronger changes in brightness.

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

I use the zest of a whole lemon rather than its juice — lots of brightness, no unnecessary liquid — plus dried thyme, garlic, onion and enough black pepper to make itself known.

From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026

She slid it open and stared down the hallway to where the brightness of the lamps sent long flickering shadows dancing across the paneled wood before her eyes.

From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh

So, when astrophysicists compare the apparent brightnesses of two type Ia supernovae as seen from Earth, they can determine their relative distances from us.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2024

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

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

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 had become fond of these orange poppies and their disintegration forces me to face inevitable endings and renunciations of all seasons, of all the sunlit fields I ever saw, of all brightnesses, persons, myself.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2017

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