Brighten

Just to run by another one this is a plan to brighten the reflectance of ocean clouds, by atomizing seawater that would brighten the albedo of the whole planet.

If these investments reach all parts of Latin America, rich and poor, the region's prospects will brighten enormously.

Sadly, the underprivileged in poor countries have no hope for any silver lining to brighten their permanently bleak existence.

Between October 23 24, 2007 the comet suffered a sudden outburst which caused it to brighten by factor of about half a million.

However, occasionally a comet may brighten to naked eye visibility, and even more rarely it may become as bright as or brighter than the brightest stars.

But the alarming thing is that astronomers recently have been studying stars that are similar to our Sun, and they've found that a number of them, when they're about the age of our Sun, brighten by a factor of as much as 20. Doesn't last for very long.