starlight

[ stahr-lahyt ]

noun

1. the light lights emanating from the stars.

starlight

/ ˈstɑːˌlaɪt /

noun

1. the light emanating from the stars

adjective

1. of or like starlight
2. Alsostarlitˈstɑːˌlɪt illuminated by starlight

Word History and Origins

Origin of starlight¹

Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; star, light ¹

Example Sentences

By peering at that filtered starlight, a sensitive telescope can tease out the gases in the atmosphere.

From Science News For Students

With Webb, scientists will be able to analyze starlight as it passes through—and gets distorted by—a given planet’s atmosphere.

From Time

Prior to the first starlight, the universe was shrouded by a “dense, obscuring fog of primordial gas,” as the National Science Foundation explains.

From Vox

Theo, like me, does climate modeling akin to that done for the Earth, figuring out what the spectrum of starlight filtered through an exoplanetary atmosphere can reveal to us.

From Nautilus

It then looks for changes in starlight caused by dark objects floating by.

From Science News For Students

Unfortunately, the Starlight Pavilion chose to give their power to bullies and canceled the screening.

From The Daily Beast

Our poor planet will be but a silent ghost whirling on its dark path in the starlight.

From Project Gutenberg

They traveled by starlight then, following as best they could the tall trees that marked the road.

From Project Gutenberg

It was clear starlight, and she sat down beside the newly sodded mound, and rested her brow upon it.

From Project Gutenberg

On each side of me walked a warrior, invisible except as when we crossed a glade where the starlight filtered down.

From Project Gutenberg

The Norman saw the silver band of a stream creeping to the Kuweik—barely flashing under the starlight, for moon there was none.

From Project Gutenberg