A star is a luminous cosmic body.

He further speculated that light forms when a luminous body causes a series of waves or vibrations in this ether.

Opaque objects are struck with light and can become luminous bodies themselves which radiate secondary light.

In the absence of any energy source, all of these formerly luminous bodies will cool and become faint.

Augoeides is an obscure term meaning "luminous body" and thought to refer to the planets.

ABE: Because we talk about different kinds of luminous bodies.

Halo Halo, a circle or arc of light surrounding a luminous body.

A luminous body imparts vibration to the luminiferous ether.

The apparitions lasted from a few minutes up to several hours and were sometimes accompanied by dove-shaped luminous bodies.

Away from either luminous body, stars were visible-and yonder brilliancy must be Quarta.