Sentence examples for increase in brightness from inspiring English sources

One amateur astronomer reported seeing a structureless bright cloud around the comet, and an estimated magnitude 2 increase in brightness after the impact.

Material from the disk sometimes falls onto the white dwarf and explodes, causing the increase in brightness.

This increase in brightness lasts only for a short period of time, followed by relatively slow dimming.

The Cepheids vary in brightness in a regular and easily identifiable way, with a quick increase in brightness followed by a slower decline.

Variations in magnitude range from barely detectable for a star that is eclipsed by a planet in orbit around it to the billion fold increase in brightness of a supernova, while periods vary from milliseconds for some pulsars to a supernova's single explosion.

But a study by astronomers showed a potential 8% to 14% increase in brightness.

Rapidly increasing in brightness, it blazed brighter than the Sun.

For more than a year it increased in brightness and all sorts of astrological interpretations were made.

U Geminorum star, any of a class of irregular variable stars that display sudden increases in brightness so great that they are sometimes called dwarf novae.

They report online in Nature today that in the years before Nova Centauri exploded, it showed short, irregular increases in brightness typical of a low-hydrogen transfer rate.

Today the sun seems stable and friendly to life, but rare outbursts of x-rays or increases in brightness could still affect Earth's climate.