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• List of most luminous stars — Below is a list of stars arranged in order of decreasing luminosity (increasing bolometric magnitude). Accurate measurement of stellar luminosities is quite difficult in practice, even when the apparent magnitude is measured accurately, for three …   Wikipedia

• Luminous red nova — Luminous red novae (abbrev. LRNe ) (sing. luminous red nova ) are stellar explosions thought to be caused by the merger of two stars. They are characterised by a distinct red colour, and a light curve that lingers with resurgent brightness in the …   Wikipedia

• Luminous blue variable — Luminous blue variables, also known as S Doradus variables, are very bright, blue, hypergiant variable stars. They exhibit long, slow changes in brightness, punctuated by occasional outbursts of substantial mass loss. They are extraordinarily… …   Wikipedia

• Luminous paint — Luminous (or luminescent) paint exhibits luminescence. In other words, it gives off visible light through fluorescence, phosphorescence, or radioluminescence.Fluorescent paintFluorescent paint reacts to long wave ultraviolet (UV) radiation,… …   Wikipedia

• Stars Fell on Alabama — is the title of a 1934 jazz standard composed by Frank Perkins with lyrics by Mitchell Parish.It is also the title of a 1934 book by Carl Carmer in which he recounts the time he spent traveling through Alabama in the late 1920s as a professor at… …   Wikipedia

• Luminous Blue Variable — Variable lumineuse bleue L étoile du Pistolet. En astronomie, une variable lumineuse bleue (ou LBV acronymeen de l anglais Luminous blue variable), appelée également variable de type S Doradus, ou variable de Hubble Sandage, est une étoile… …   Wikipédia en Français

• Stars and Stripes — Star Star (st[aum]r), n. [OE. sterre, AS. steorra; akin to OFries. stera, OS. sterro, D. ster, OHG. sterno, sterro, G. stern, Icel. stjarna, Sw. stjerna, Dan. stierne, Goth. sta[ i]rn[=o], Armor. & Corn. steren, L. stella, Gr. asth r, a stron,… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• luminous — [[t]lu͟ːmɪnəs[/t]] ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n Something that is luminous shines or glows in the dark. The luminous dial on the clock showed five minutes to seven. ...one of the most luminous and unstable stars in our Galaxy …   English dictionary

• Stars —    The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the birth of Christ, probably some luminous meteors miraculously formed for this specific purpose (Matt. 2:2 10); stars worshipped (Deut. 4:19; 2… …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• List of most massive stars — This is a list of the most massive stars so far discovered. The list is ordered by solar mass (1 solar mass = the mass of Earth s Sun). Stellar mass is the most important attribute of a star. Combined with chemical compositions, mass determines a …   Wikipedia

• Lists of stars — Lists= The following are lists of stars:By location::* List of stars by constellationBy name::* List of star names:* List of traditional star names #x2013; according to western culture, including::* List of Arabic star names:* List of Chinese… …   Wikipedia