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means The light emitted by stars, especially the faint glow they cast on the night sky and the earth below.
from A plain marriage of two old Germanic words — "star" (Old English steorra, kin to Latin stella and Greek aster) and "light" (Old English leoht). Both stretch back through Proto-Germanic into Proto-Indo-European, where the root for "star" is reconstructed as *h₂stḗr. So the compound is exactly what it looks like: ancient words for two ancient things, fused long ago in English.
- time travel
- You see stars as they were millennia ago
- some are ghosts
- Certain stars died before their light reached us
- naked-eye limit
- Roughly 9,000 stars visible without telescopes
- color codes age
- Blue means hot and young, red means cool
- oldest known
- Some starlight predates Earth itself
starlight express — andrew lloyd webber musical opened in london's west end in 1984, about anthropomorphic trains racing
starlight theatre — outdoor amphitheater in kansas city, missouri established in 1913, hosts musicals and concerts