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Nuclear fusion deep inside these stars was churning out the very first starlight of the cosmos.—Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 28 Apr. 2025 Further investigations confirmed it was indeed caused by an exoplanet—and the delay in the starlight’s return came from its comet-like tail.—Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Apr. 2025 But with that starlight also came periods of darkness, including years when the building sat empty and derelict.—Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2025 Jake Taylor of the University of Oxford, who studies the atmospheres of far-away planets with the James Webb Space Telescope, did a quick reanalysis of the starlight filtering through K2-18b's atmosphere.—Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for starlight
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