luminosity

Example Sentences

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“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

A follow-up spectrum from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawai'i revealed the AGN's extreme luminosity.

From Science Daily • 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

She found a relationship between their variation period, or pulse, and their intrinsic brightness or luminosity.

From Salon • Feb. 14, 2025

The sun disappears completely beyond the horizon, and the remaining luminosity shifts from dusk to twilight.

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern