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  • light radiated over the entire object, treating that integrated brightness as the brightness of a single point-like or star-like source, and computing the...
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    generally attains its maximum darkness. Sources of the night sky's intrinsic brightness include airglow, indirect scattering of sunlight, scattering of starlight...
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  • more luminous, or intrinsically brighter, can be observed at a greater distance, creating a false trend of increasing intrinsic brightness, and other related...
    31 KB (4,129 words) - 05:24, 30 June 2024
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    (m) is a measure of the brightness of a star or other astronomical object. An object's apparent magnitude depends on its intrinsic luminosity, its distance...
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    generally attains its minimum brightness. Several sources can be identified as the source of the intrinsic brightness of the sky, namely airglow, indirect...
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    "dog star". It is bright because of its proximity to the Solar System and its intrinsic brightness. In contrast, the other bright stars of the constellation...
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    almost the same intrinsic brightness (a standard candle), and since objects that are farther away appear dimmer, the observed brightness of these supernovae...
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    arranged by their apparent magnitude – their brightness as observed from Earth. It includes all stars brighter than magnitude +2.50 in visible light, measured...
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    the object's brightness rapidly increases. This is mainly due to the increased area lit, but is also partly due to the intrinsic brightness of the part...
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    Sky Survey. It is a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB). The intrinsic brightness of the flashes corresponds to over a trillion times the Sun's luminosity...
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    Eigengrau (redirect from Intrinsic gray)
    Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"; pronounced [ˈʔaɪ̯gŋ̍ˌgʁaʊ̯] ), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or...
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    approximately the same distance, so that their intrinsic brightness could be deduced from their apparent brightness as registered in the photographic plates...
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    generally attains its minimum brightness. Several sources can be identified as the source of the intrinsic brightness of the sky, namely airglow, indirect...
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    least 2013, when observations of the storm began. W1906+40 has an intrinsic brightness of 0.02% that of the Sun, a radius of 0.9 times that of Jupiter,...
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    are derived: are the brightness variations periodical, semiperiodical, irregular, or unique? what is the period of the brightness fluctuations? what is...
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    event for which the intrinsic brightness is known. The object's distance can then be inferred from the observed apparent brightness. Meanwhile, the recession...
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    limited to ground-based observations that could only establish its intrinsic brightness and orbital elements. Although the images obtained by Voyager 2 do...
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    2016. Retrieved February 4, 2016. "With regard to mass, size, and intrinsic brightness, the Sun is a typical star." Technically, the sun is near the middle...
    137 KB (15,479 words) - 05:06, 8 July 2024
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    by interstellar dust. 2019abn peaked at magnitude 17, reaching an intrinsic brightness of M r = − 14.9 {\displaystyle M_{r}=-14.9} . In September 2020,...
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    the intrinsic brightness, or absolute magnitude, is known. This allows the object's distance to be measured from its actual observed brightness, or apparent...
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