Example Sentences
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When Jupiter occults a bright star, astronomers will learn a lot about its atmosphere, which is probably thousands of miles deep and boiling with enormous storms.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the earth's airless moon occults a star, the star winks out instantaneously.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hat occults its background, and thus reconstructs itself.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 by Various
This is very strikingly shown when the Moon, in its monthly progress among the stars, passes before one of them and occults it.
From Are the Planets Inhabited? by Maunder, E. Walter (Edward Walter)
When it occults a star it instantly shuts off the light and as instantly reveals it again.
From Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work by Warren, Henry White
