aberration of starlight

Apparent displacement of a star or other celestial body resulting from Earth's orbital motion around the Sun. The maximum displacement is about 20.49 seconds of arc. It depends on the ratio of Earth's orbital speed to the speed of light and Earth's direction of motion and thus provides confirmation that Earth orbits the Sun rather than the reverse.

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Starlight is a common word for the light emitted by stars, more specifically stars other than the Sun; light emitted by the Sun is called sunlight. Starlight on a clear moonless night provides illumination of approximately 0.001 candella per square meter.

Other uses of this term:

Science

• Starlight Information Visualization System, visual analysis software application
• Starlight problem, an objection to Young-Earth Creationism

Theaters

In the United States:

• Starlight Theatre (Kansas City)
• Starlight Theatre (Waterford, Michigan)
• The Starlight, the former name of a music venue in Fort Collins, Colorado

Entertainment

Music

• Starlight (song), by the English band Muse
• Starlight, by the french band The Supermen Lovers
• Starlight Express, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber
• Starlight Express a song from the musical with the same name.
• Starlight Sequence, a song from Starlight Express.
• StarLight Live, a concert series/world tour by Cantopop singer, Joey Yung

Film and television

• Starlight (TV series), a 1930s BBC Television programme
• The Sailor Starlights, characters in the Sailor Moon metaseries
• Touching Starlight, 1996 Chinese film
• StaRLitwritten and directored by floatingbottle

Comics

• Starlight (comics), Dr. Tania Belinsky (former Red Guardian III), a character from the Marvel Universe
• Natasha Irons, codename "Starlight", a DC Comics character

Literature

• Starlight (anthology series), a series of science fiction and fantasy anthologies edited by Patrick Nielsen Hayden
• Starlight (fairy tale), attributed to Henriette-Julie de Murat
• Starlight (Warriors), the fourth in the Warriors: The New Prophecy novel series by Erin Hunter

Other uses

• Starlight, Indiana, a small town in the United States
• The Coast Starlight, an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Los Angeles daily
• A slang term for a Vodka Redbull
• Starlight, an editorial, publishing branch of the Italian manga, fumetti company Star Comics (Italy)

See also

• Starlite