self-luminous
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Brown has been modeling the climates and spectra of self-luminous giant planets.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026
According to the Vedas ultimate reality is all-pervading, uncreated, self-luminous eternal spirit, the final cause of the universe, the power behind all tangible forces, the consciousness that animates all conscious beings.”
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
Dr. Brown believes that nearly half of these groups contain no central body large enough to be self-luminous.
From Time Magazine Archive
They know almost nothing about the smaller bodies in distant space which are not self-luminous, i.e., planets, meteors, comets.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was not in keeping with the prejudices of the time to explain the phases or eclipses of the Moon by the relative geometry of the Earth, the Moon and the self-luminous Sun.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
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