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Corona :: Corona (n.) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon..

Brightsome :: Brightsome (a.) Bright; clear; luminous; brilliant.

Spectrum :: Spectrum (n.) A luminous appearance, or an image seen after the eye has been exposed to an intense light or a strongly illuminated object. When the object is colored, the image appears of the complementary color, as a green image seen after viewing a red wafer lying on white paper. Called also ocular spectrum..

Illustrious :: Illustrious (a.) Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.

Chronoscope :: Chronoscope (n.) An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc..

Illuminous :: Illuminous (a.) Bright; clear.

Shadowy :: Shadowy (a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.

Nebula :: Nebula (n.) A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situated beyond the solar system among the stars. True nebulae are gaseous; but very distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope..

Photographometer :: Photographometer (n.) An instrument for determining the sensibility of the plates employed in photographic processes to luminous rays.

Meteor :: Meteor (n.) Specif.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region..

Relucent :: Relucent (a.) Reflecting light; shining; glittering; glistening; bright; luminous; splendid.

Star :: Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae..

Corona :: Corona (n.) A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon..

Luculent :: Luculent (a.) Clear; evident; luminous.

Orb :: Orb (n.) The eye, as luminous and spherical..

Phonoscope :: Phonoscope (n.) An instrument for producing luminous figures by the vibrations of sounding bodies.

Luminosity :: Luminosity (n.) The quality or state of being luminous; luminousness.

Bright :: Bright (a.) Radiating or reflecting light; shedding or having much light; shining; luminous; not dark.

Lustrous :: Lustrous (a.) Bright; shining; luminous.

Incandescence :: Incandescence (n.) A white heat, or the glowing or luminous whiteness of a body caused by intense heat..

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