halo

The featured object is NGC 6426, a globular cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 5, 2026

Madness, in these pages, is neither halo nor key.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

The Halos have gone to halo, the Big A is now the Big L and, somewhere, a rally monkey weeps.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2026

Its growth and valuation certainly aren’t hurting the case of any of the smaller space stocks that are benefiting from the SpaceX halo.

From Barron's ● May 27, 2026

It was a photo of a robed woman with a sharp star for a halo and a torch in her upraised hand.

From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez

Encircling the footprint of each roundhouse were "middens," haloes of rubbish dumped from the stilt village above, included broken pots, butchered animal bone, and "coprolites" or fossilised faeces.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 20, 2024

Diffuse gas in the two galactic haloes would compress on collision, forming a curved structure like the bow wave from a ship moving through water.

From Scientific American ● Jan. 12, 2023

The glory that now haloes the vineyard valleys of Sonoma and Santa Ynez, Alexander and Edna, the Russian River, and other dales and vales, once belonged to Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022

Accretion disks are fast-spinning haloes of matter that orbit around black holes at high speeds.

From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2021

They have gas pumps outside, human-sized, with round discs on top, lit up like pale moons or haloes minus the head.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood

Although the procedure is widely used and generally considered safe, it can sometimes lead to complications including dry eyes, glare, halos, and weakened corneal structure.

From Science Daily ● May 28, 2026

“I was there, and I was a pop star — my thing was wearing ornate halos all the time,” you might say.

From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2026

"You have this self-interacting dark matter which transports energy, and it tends to transport energy outwards in these halos," says Gurian.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026

Mr. Lloyd’s buttery tone is set within soaring lines, circular loops and halos of sound from Mr. Sewell’s custom-made electric guitar, and answered by delicate figures from Mr. Moran’s piano.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 11, 2025

Night was in all the trees and coloring the sky, and the lamps were halos of pink light in the gentle house.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

I’m not ashamed to admit that there have been times when those 32-ounce tubs just stare at me day after day, haloed by the refrigerator light, moving further from consumable and closer to petri dish.

From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2026

“The way her hijab haloed Nour’s head” gives her a saintly presence, “or so Jimmy thought.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

In the dimness of a small theater inside Venice’s former City Hall, poet Sesshu Foster was in the spotlight, haloed against a velvet stage as he read aloud to an audience of 50.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 15, 2022

Rob Flaherty, the White House’s director of digital strategy, also tweeted an image of Biden smiling with red eyes, his hair haloed against a dark background.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 8, 2022

Light burst and haloed around the antique before quickly fading away.

From "Aru Shah and the End of Time" by Roshani Chokshi

She became slimmer, blonder, sleeker, her cheekbones carved by shadow, a golden nimbus haloing her hair.

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 19, 2015

One of his plates showed the wounded gunman seated on the pavement, the girl clasping his head to her shoulder, the alert hands of policemen and detectives haloing the couple's heads.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then I thought, how could this Doctor Gordon help me anyway, with a beautiful wife and beautiful children and a beautiful dog haloing him like the angels on a Christmas card?

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.

From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton

They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor