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Recent Examples of starlight
As massive young stars carve away at nearby gas and dust, their bright starlight produces a bright nebulous glow, represented in the image in blue.
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 July 2025
Stretching through the Summer Triangle, the Milky Way is a river of starlight.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
That process gradually cleared the dense fog, allowing starlight to travel freely through space and illuminating the cosmos for the first time.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 June 2025
This will bend the path of the starlight and focus it, like a lens, causing the star to briefly appear brighter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 June 2025
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Julia Jacobo, ABC News, 11 July 2025
Stretching through the Summer Triangle, the Milky Way is a river of starlight.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 25 June 2025
That process gradually cleared the dense fog, allowing starlight to travel freely through space and illuminating the cosmos for the first time.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 19 June 2025
This will bend the path of the starlight and focus it, like a lens, causing the star to briefly appear brighter.
—Robert Lea, Space.com, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for starlight
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Highlights of the program will also include: daily yoga and meditation, moonlight sound healing, ocean plunges, cellular resilience nutrition, NAD+ and Vitamin therapies, sleep optimization workshops, as well as mobility and fascia release sequences.—
Bianca Salonga,
Forbes.com,
6 Aug. 2025
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Cunningham, 26, works at a nonprofit and moonlights at two more jobs, and Cureau, 31, gets good pay in construction.—
Marisa Peñaloza,
NPR,
24 July 2025
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Along the way, it’s claimed to have faced temperatures as low as -68°F and exposure to sunlight 30% stronger than Earth-level conditions.—
Prakhar Khanna,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025
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Arrange them in the vase and keep them away from drafts and out of direct sunlight.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 Aug. 2025
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The typical galaxy in that sample is 100 times fainter than the natural glow in the nighttime air in the Earth's atmosphere, so this Rubin Observatory program depends on near-total natural darkness.—
Richard Green,
Space.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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For an entire week, the flashing blue and red lights of police vehicles cast eerie glows inside residents’ homes, while helicopters and drones hummed relentlessly overhead.—
Alaa Elassar,
CNN Money,
10 Aug. 2025
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“Starlight.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlight. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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