starlight
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Definition of starlight
: the light given by the stars
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This is necessary because stars are around a million times brighter than planets and even brighter than everything else in a system, so the only way to take photos is to block out the starlight. — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, "The First Picture of a Newborn Planet," 2 July 2018 The first starlight might have lit up the cosmos just 250 million years after the Big Bang—a blink of an eye in cosmic time. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "The First Stars May Have Formed Just 250 Million Years After the Big Bang," 17 May 2018 Detecting planets around distant stars can be incredibly difficult, as the starlight usually overpowers the much dimmer planet. — Loren Grush, The Verge, "Astronomers snap one of the best baby pics yet of a newborn planet," 2 July 2018 That's why the traditional methods that are used to find exoplanets, like looking for dips in starlight as planets pass in front of their star, don't work for planets that are still developing. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, "Three 'baby' planets found forming around newborn star," 13 June 2018 George was a great nighttime big snook fisherman with a keen understanding of Florida Keys bridges and tides and could navigate the maze of islands of Everglades National Park, even by starlight. — Sun-Sentinel.com, "Deaths in South Florida: 6/3," 3 June 2018 These are periodic dips in starlight that occur when a planet’s orbit takes it in front of its host star. — Denise Chow /, NBC News, "Watch live as NASA's TESS exoplanet-hunting satellite launches into space," 16 Apr. 2018 In others, starlight illuminates both a top and bottom surface of the disk, forming a structure that resembles a yo-yo. — Joshua Sokol, WIRED, "These Spinning Disks of Gas and Dust Reveal How Planets Get Made," 28 May 2018 Over the course of its two-year mission, TESS will monitor the brightness of more than 200,000 stars, waiting to observe tiny dips in starlight known as transits. — Amy Thompson, Scientific American, "What’s Next for TESS, NASA’s New Exoplanet Hunter?," 19 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'starlight.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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starlight
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English Language Learners Definition of starlight
: the light produced by stars
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: the light given by the stars
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