We've compressed things a bit If you look at the infrared monitor, you'll notice a cluster of stars brightening rapidly.

The" sky was brightening rapidly, the darkness trickling away like spilt ink.

It brightened rapidly over the following four weeks as it approached the sun, and reached apparent magnitude 2 by October 15.

Dawn's light was brightening rapidly now, and the wind from the west had slackened slightly.

It was discovered on February 5, 1843 and rapidly brightened to become a great comet.

Sunrise was less than an hour off, and the predawn sky was brightening rapidly.

The day was brightening rapidly and soon there would be the first horizontal rays of orange sunlight coming in from the Atlantic.

Then the dome of artificial sky rapidly brightened with a new ersatz dawn.

Although SN 2011fe was initially very faint, it brightened rapidly.

The comet brightened rapidly, and within days had become an exceptionally bright object.