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surface brightness
The measure of the amount of light that an object, especially a galaxy, emits per area of the sky. Even a galaxy that has a high total luminosity can be hard to see if it has a low surface brightness.
Related entry
• low surface brightness galaxy
Related categories
• ASTRONOMICAL QUANTITIES
• OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY
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