Definition of starlight
: the light given by the stars
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We had to find our way by starlight.
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Here is a photo of Donald J. Trump, crowned with a single Van Gogh brushstroke depicting a halo of starlight: Here is what Google says: Analysis: Correct.
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The cluster warped the starlight, bending it toward Earth while magnifying the star 2,000 times.
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Measuring dips in starlight can determine the exoplanet's size and orbital path.
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As a satellite-fringed world drifts in front of its home star, its satellites would block some starlight in front of and behind the transiting planet.
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If this were to happen, the dimming of starlight caused by the planet would be preceded and then followed by a very slight dimming by its satellite necklace.
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The dip meant that cosmic energy was being absorbed by primordial clouds of hydrogen gas that hung over the universe like a fog, but whose atoms had been thrown out of balance by the sudden presence of starlight.
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Her great grandsons, Robert (Tre'), William, and Vincent Burbank, and the newest starlights Ellie Burbank, Harper McSweeney, and Aitor Alberdi Jr. will forever keep her in their hearts.
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This might seem counterintuitive, but the reason seems to be that thinner atmospheres scatter less starlight.
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First Known Use of starlight
14th century
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: the light given by the stars
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