Though Yanique often successfully evokes the blue-green clarity of the sea in her luminous, sun-dappled prose, at other times she seems to be striving too hard to evoke it.
Named PH1, the planet goes around two of the four stars, shown close-up here: One is a yellow-white F-type star that is slightly warmer and more luminous than our sun; the other, at the 11 o'clock position, is a red dwarf, cooler and dimmer than the sun.
The star is orange, about two-thirds as massive and about an eighth as luminous as our Sun.
"Real or not, her look then was more luminous than the sun which was beginning to rise".
In January 2002, V838 Mon went from a faint speck of light to a beacon 600,000 times more luminous than our sun (ScienceNOW, 26 March).
NASA's Kepler spacecraft has detected the tiniest world ever found around another star that's about as warm and luminous as the sun.
As they report in the 23 January issue of Science, the progenitor star of SN 2003gd turns out to be an orange-red supergiant star, about eight times more massive and 20,000 times more luminous than our sun.
Imagine a sun, luminous, clear, unobstructed, and spontaneously present; its nature is like this".
Surface temperature for the central star is about 80,000 K, being 10,000 times as luminous as the sun.
It is around double the size of and around 33 times as luminous as the sun and rotates rapidly.
