STARLIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does starlight mean? 

• STARLIGHT (noun)
  The noun STARLIGHT has 1 sense:

1. the light of the stars

  Familiarity information: STARLIGHT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STARLIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The light of the stars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural phenomena

Hypernyms ("starlight" is a kind of...):

light; visible light; visible radiation ((physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation)

 Context examples 

When an object transits, or passes in front of a star from the vantage point of the space telescope, a dip in starlight is recorded.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

Brown dwarfs form like stars but lack the mass to fuse atoms at their cores and shine with starlight.

(Lone Planetary-Mass Object Found in Family of Stars, NASA)

Such small particles could not remain in orbit around the star because pressure from its starlight would drive them farther into space.

(Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by Dust, NASA)

When we had again alighted, and were walking in the starlight along the quiet road that led to the Doctor's house, I told Agnes it was her doing.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"It is fair to-night," said she, as she looked through the panes, "though not starlight; Mr. Rochester has, on the whole, had a favourable day for his journey."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

These ices are located on dust grains relatively close to the star, and all this dust and ice blocks out starlight making the star seem dimmer than it really is.

(NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star, NASA)

The astronomers knew the planet was there due to dips in the light from its host star as it orbited, periodically blocking starlight.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In this case, computers learned to identify planets by finding in Kepler data instances where the telescope recorded changes in starlight caused by planets beyond our solar system, known as exoplanets.

(Artificial Intelligence, NASA Data Used to Discover Eighth Planet Circling Distant Star, NASA)

By dissecting starlight filtering through the planet’s atmosphere into its component colors, the team found clear evidence for water.

(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)

However, the observations did not detect reflected light, meaning that the daytime side of the planet is absorbing almost all the starlight falling onto it.

(Hubble Captures Blistering Pitch-Black Planet, NASA)