starless

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One of the major questions in astronomy is whether dark matter can form small, starless clumps.

From Science Daily • Oct. 11, 2025

Shockingly, Schoenberg remains starless on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

On a starless night in March, Taiba and her husband, Ali, waded toward a boat in Colombia with 50 other Afghans, headed for the Darién Gap.

From Seattle Times • May 22, 2023

It was a starless night when a ship commanded by a young American lieutenant collided with a Japanese destroyer in the South Pacific.

From BBC • Aug. 6, 2022

At once, as though somehow aware that he was their last intruder, the mambas hissed loudly in unison, their cold eyes meeting his own like onyx plucked from a starless night sky.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray