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We had to find our way by starlight.
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Nine months of starlight and sea air—chess, books, sewing, the sextant and the nautical almanac, bibulous pit stops in scenic ports—ended abruptly one March morning when a sperm whale smashed a hole in their boat.
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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.
—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
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Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
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.
—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
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“Starlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starlight. Accessed 1 Sep. 2025.
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starlight
noun
star·light
ˈstär-ˌlīt 
: the light given by the stars
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