A common candle emits light with a luminous intensity of roughly one candela. | Image: Wikipedia
For most of history, luminous intensity (how bright something is) was measured by the brightness of a ‘standard candle’ flame. However, as each country was using a different type of candle it wasn’t a very consistent method. Scientists have since defined the base unit of luminous intensity as a Candela, which is roughly the same as the amount of light emitted from a common candle. A light bulb is bright, but the Sun is much brighter, so the Sun has more candelas than the light bulb.
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