Old-fashioned planetarium projectors used a metal sphere, pierced with thousands of holes and illuminated from within, to mimic the starry sky.

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Peering upwards looking for a flitter of action, the only movement was the pin prick of light from a satellite as it tracked across the starry sky.

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The city's lights project ethereally across the starry, cloudless sky.

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In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.

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The beetles performed best when confronted with a perfect starry sky projected on to the planetarium dome, but coped just as well when shown only the diffuse bar of light that is the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.

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His cramped Houston apartment gets the point across by having no wall between the young couple and the widow, and his cross-section of a bus in front of a starry sky is visually clever.

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