Eksempler på starlight

• Starlight and dust reprocessed starlight contribute almost equal amounts to the background energy.

• Arrhenius (1908) envisaged microbes high in the atmosphere of a planet being propelled by the pressure of starlight until they reached velocities sufficient to escape from their planetary system altogether.

• A special form of street lighting, the so-called "starlight," has been authorized and introduced by a number of local authorities.

• There seems to me no reason why towns should not be partially lit by light better than starlight, and that the lighting should be controlled by the electrical authorities.

• Hatchlings enter the ocean by navigating toward the brighter horizon created by the reflection of the moon and starlight off the water's surface.

• Later photographic methods would use starlight to make a representation on a photographic plate.

• It is also important for the alignment of cosmic dust grains, which is a cause of the polarization of starlight.

• The astro-comb uses a pulsed laser to filter starlight before feeding the signal into a spectrograph.