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We had to find our way by starlight.
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The breakthrough came when astronomers used a coronagraph — a disk to block the bright starlight — from Alpha Centauri A, revealing a faint object around it.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Because chemicals absorb and emit light at characteristic wavelengths, when light from a parent star passes through a planet's atmosphere, the molecules in that atmosphere leave their telltale fingerprints in the spectrum of starlight.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 July 2025
Rubin hopes to tally these same sorts of deep-space particles, the kind that all of Earth is constantly microdosing, phantom starlight from the farthest reaches of the universe.
—Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
As starlight passed through the planet's atmosphere, the clues left behind allowed for astronomers to piece together the gases in the atmosphere and detect a possible biosignature.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 9 Aug. 2025
Because chemicals absorb and emit light at characteristic wavelengths, when light from a parent star passes through a planet's atmosphere, the molecules in that atmosphere leave their telltale fingerprints in the spectrum of starlight.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 31 July 2025
Rubin hopes to tally these same sorts of deep-space particles, the kind that all of Earth is constantly microdosing, phantom starlight from the farthest reaches of the universe.
—Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025
As starlight passed through the planet's atmosphere, the clues left behind allowed for astronomers to piece together the gases in the atmosphere and detect a possible biosignature.
—Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
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“Starlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starlight. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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starlight
noun
star·light
ˈstär-ˌlīt 
: the light given by the stars
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