Sentence examples for more luminous than from inspiring English sources

HR 4796A is roughly 20times more luminous than the Sun and a few times more massive.

The star is of a common type somewhat hotter and more luminous than the Sun.

For a given temperature, there are stars that are much more luminous than main-sequence stars.

So to know which star is more luminous than the other, we need to know the distance to the star.

All stars much more luminous than the first magnitude have begun to leave the main sequence; there are some giants.

Now, catching these first glimpses of the country, I thought, if anything, that it was more luminous than I remembered.

Among these is SN2006gy, which radiated more luminous energy than any other supernova.

As they merged in the viewer's eye, the theory went, the pigments -- always in complementary pairs -- would produce a more luminous effect than if they had been mixed on the palette.

Ken Loach's social-realist tragedy from 1969 looks more luminous, more impassioned than ever, a rich film of flesh and blood.

These are MS stars in open and globular clusters that are more luminous and bluer than other MS stars in the same cluster.

Figure 5 shows that our sample galaxies are much more luminous at FIR than at FUV. Downward arrows in Fig. 5 represent galaxies which have UV flux densities below the detection limit of GALEX.