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Recent Examples of starlike
Mercury will be the fourth-brightest starlike object after Venus, Jupiter and Sirius.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Jamie Carter, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for starlike
Adjective
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Mostly Mute Monday tells an astronomical story in images, visuals, and no more than 200 words.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
9 Feb. 2026
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The winter sky is filled with astronomical wonders that are worth braving the cold to see.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Earth's moon is 400 times smaller than the sun, which happens to be, on average, 400 times farther from our planet than its natural satellite — a wondrous cosmic coincidence that causes both celestial objects to appear the same size in our sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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Called an asterism, which is a prominent group of stars that form a noticeable pattern, the celestial arrangement is a wintertime phenomenon in the Northern Hemisphere.—
Michele Laufik,
Martha Stewart,
9 Feb. 2026
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Many of the iconic works from this time broke precedent by portraying morally ambiguous superheroes who weren’t pure or star-spangled.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
21 July 2022
Adjective
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Our great hope is that today's indirect, astrophysical evidence will someday lead to successful direct detection.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
29 Jan. 2026
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But what if there's an astrophysical creature that refuses to play by the rules?—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
18 Jan. 2026
Adjective
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The journey to decode the universe's recipe for planet formation is long, but every interstellar visitor brings us closer.—
Paul Sutter,
Space.com,
9 Feb. 2026
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Aided by the survey, York also pursued his own research questions, including unidentified diffuse interstellar bands and cataloguing the spectra, or brightness at different wavelengths, of quasi-stellar objects to study the three-dimensional distribution of intergalactic gas.—
Bob Goldsborough,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Feb. 2026
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“Starlike.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starlike. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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