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Bright Eyes (band)
Bright Eyes is an Omaha, Nebraska indie rock band founded in 1995 by singer-songwriter Conor Oberst with Mike Mogis and later Nate Walcott, known for sad, poetic albums on Saddle Creek and, since 2020, Dead Oceans.
Bright Future (Adrianne Lenker album)
Bright Future (2024) is Adrianne Lenker's fifth solo album, on 4AD, recorded fully analogue on tape at Double Infinity with Philip Weinrobe, Mat Davidson, Josefin Runsteen, and Nick Hakim; Metascore 87.
Bright Future (アカルイミライ) (2003 film)
Bright Future (アカルイミライ, Akarui Mirai) is Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2003 Japanese drama, in Cannes competition, about alienated workers Yuji and Mamoru, a murdered boss, and a poisonous red jellyfish multiplying in Tokyo's canals.
Bright Futures Scholarship Program
Florida's Bright Futures Scholarship Program is a lottery-funded merit scholarship created in 1997, offering Florida Academic Scholars and Medallion Scholars awards (plus vocational tiers) to state high school graduates.
Bright Lights, Big City (film)
Bright Lights, Big City is a 1988 American drama film directed by James Bridges and starring Michael J. Fox, adapted by Jay McInerney from his 1984 novel.
Bright Machines, Inc.
Bright Machines, Inc. is a private American manufacturing technology company founded in 2018 in San Francisco that builds software-defined robotic automation for electronics assembly, including AI servers.
Bright Money
Bright Money is a San Francisco consumer fintech company founded in 2019 by Avi Patchava and Petko Plachkov, whose app automates credit-card debt paydown and credit building.
Bright Peak Therapeutics
Bright Peak Therapeutics is a clinical-stage biotechnology company in Basel, Switzerland and San Diego, California, launched by Versant Ventures in 2020 to develop PD-1-based cancer immunotherapies.
Bright spot (seismic)
A bright spot is a local increase of amplitude on a seismic reflection section, classically caused by gas in a sand and used as a hydrocarbon indicator.
Bright spots on Ceres
The bright spots on Ceres are unusually reflective deposits, called faculae, made mostly of sodium carbonate left by evaporating salty brine, first seen by Hubble in 2004.
Bright Star (film)
Bright Star (2009) is Jane Campion's romantic drama about poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), based on Andrew Motion's Keats biography; Cannes 2009 selection, 83% on Rotten Tomatoes. Not the Steve Martin musical.
Bright Star (musical)
Bright Star is a 2016 bluegrass and Americana stage musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell about Alice Murphy and Billy Cane in North Carolina, premiered at the Old Globe, nominated for three Tonys.
Bright Star Catalogue
The Bright Star Catalogue, also called the Yale Bright Star Catalogue, is an astronomical catalog of all stars brighter than visual magnitude 6.5, roughly the naked-eye limit, with 9,110 entries.
Bright Sunny Skies
Bright Sunny Skies (Yanyangtian, also translated as Bright Clouds) is a three-volume novel by the Chinese writer Hao Ran, published 1964–1966 and set in a suburban Beijing agricultural cooperative in 1957.
Bright young things
Bright Young Things (Bright Young People): informal 1920s British upper-class and aristocratic youth group famous for elaborate Mayfair theme parties, gossip-column fame, Waugh's Vile Bodies satire, and Cecil Beaton's portraits.
Bright Young Things (film)
Bright Young Things is Stephen Fry's 2003 directorial debut, a British comedy-drama adapting Evelyn Waugh's 1930 novel Vile Bodies about 1930s London socialites, gossip culture and celebrity, starring Emily Mortimer and Stephen Campbell Moore; the real Bright Young Things were the tabloid-named 1920s party set.
Bright-field microscopy
Bright-field microscopy is an optical technique that illuminates transparent specimens with transmitted white light, rendering stained structures dark against a bright background; it is the oldest compound-microscope method.
Bright's disease
Bright's disease (morbus Brightii), a historical term named for Richard Bright, covered proteinuric kidney disease from his 1827 Reports of Medical Cases until renal biopsy replaced it with glomerulonephritis and modern diagnoses in the 1950s.
Brightburn
Brightburn is a 2019 American superhero horror film directed by David Yarovesky, starring Elizabeth Banks and Jackson A. Dunn as a Kansas couple and their alien son.
Brightcove
Brightcove is an American online video platform company selling cloud software for hosting, delivering, and monetizing video, founded by Jeremy Allaire in Boston in 2004.
Brighter Days Ahead
Brighter Days Ahead is a 2025 short film co-directed by Ariana Grande and Christian Breslauer for Eternal Sunshine Deluxe; elderly Peaches relives four memories at Brighter Days Inc., each erased afterward; it won the 2025 MTV VMA for Video of the Year.
Brightest cluster galaxy
A brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) is the brightest and most massive galaxy of a galaxy cluster, usually a giant elliptical lying near the bottom of the cluster's gravitational potential well.
BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology (博瑞医药)
BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology (博瑞医药) is a pharmaceutical company based in Suzhou, China, founded by Yuan Jiandong in 2001, which develops hard-to-copy generics and innovative drugs including BGM0504.
BrightInsight
BrightInsight, Inc. is a San Jose, California digital health company, founded in 2017, providing a regulated platform for biopharma and medtech; its investors include General Catalyst and Mayo Clinic.
Brightline
Brightline is a privately owned intercity passenger railroad in Florida connecting Miami and Orlando over about 235 miles, which began service in 2018 and reached Orlando in 2023.
Brightline West
Brightline West, begun as DesertXpress in 2005, is a 218-mile high-speed rail line under construction between Las Vegas and Rancho Cucamonga, California, with 200 mph electric trains due in 2029.
Brightoil Petroleum Holdings Ltd
Brightoil Petroleum (Holdings) Limited (光汇石油) was a Bermuda-incorporated, Hong Kong-listed energy company in oil trading, bunkering, and upstream production, suspended since 2017 and delisted by Hong Kong's exchange in 2020.
Brighton
Brighton, English seaside city in Brighton and Hove (pop. 277,200, 2021); resort made fashionable by George IV and the Royal Pavilion, now a tourism, digital, and commuter economy facing acute housing affordability pressure.
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C.
Brighton & Hove Albion F.C., the Seagulls, is an English Premier League club founded 24 June 1901 at the Seven Stars pub, Brighton. Known for Tony Bloom's data-driven recruitment model, the 1983 FA Cup final, the Amex stadium, and a sixth-place 2022/23 finish.
Brighton and Hove
Brighton and Hove is a unitary authority and city on England's south coast, formed in 1997, granted city status in 2000, population about 278,000, governed by a Labour-majority council and facing reorganisation into unitary councils by 2028.