Incandescent

ˌɪnˈkændəsənt

adjective

emitting light as a result of being heated

The word 'incandescent', derived from the Latin word 'incandescere' meaning 'to glow', is often used to describe sources of light that emit a warm and intense glow when heated, like incandescent light bulbs or stars in the night sky.

The fire burned its steady, slow flame, and phantoms danced in its incandescent core.

Stephen King

The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, Book 1)

Her pale, doughy face turned an ugly, patchy violet.“When did you do this?” she asked, her voice trembling slightly.“Last Hogsmeade weekend,” said Harry.She looked up at him, incandescent with rage, the magazine shaking in her stubby fingers.“There will be no more Hogsmeade trips for you, Mr. Potter,” she whispered.

J. K. Rowling

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As Mars approached opposition, Lavelle of Java set the wires of the astronomical exchange palpitating with the amazing intelligence of a huge outbreak of incandescent gas upon the planet.

H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds

Incandescent rainbows shone above it, blue, red, and golden lights played about it; but the stream itself was white, ineffable.

Upton Sinclair

The Jungle

Other eyewitnesses depose that they observed an incandescent object of enormous proportions hurtling through the atmosphere at a terrifying velocity in a trajectory directed southwest by west.

James Joyce

Ulysses

Tempers were short and bodies restless in the incandescent gorge whose granite peaks radiated the sun in a myriad shimmering points of light, and into the depths of whose tortuous bed no wind could come to relieve the slow saturation of the air with heat.

T. E. Lawrence

Seven Pillars of Wisdom

She was a tall, strapping girl with long hair and incandescent blue veins converging populously beneath her cocoa-colored skin where the flesh was most tender, and she kept cursing and shrieking and jumping high up into the air on her bare feet to keep right on hitting him on the top of his head with the spiked heel of her shoe.

Heller, Joseph

Catch-22