radiant
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It is best to view the meteors slightly away from the radiant as they will be more visible.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026
When the bride processes down the aisle, I don’t see a niece, a stepdaughter or a godchild, merely a radiant young woman stepping into a new phase of life.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
On his social media accounts, the difference is striking: a face that was radiant in old pictures, now gone sullen.
From Barron's ● Oct. 5, 2026
Feldman hopes the exhibition, which spans fine-line drawings of entangled lovers and radiant topographical tapestries, will complicate that familiar account.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026
With this, he dropped his disguise and stood before her a radiant youth.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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The radiants carried them away, and I saw them no more.
From Lilith, a romance by George MacDonald
Unlike the other well-known showers, the radiants of which are stationary, that of the Perseids shifts each night a little in an easterly direction.
From Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language by Cecil Goodrich Julius Dolmage
The order of their power as radiants and absorbents is that here indicated, bisulphide of carbon being the feeblest, and amylene the strongest of the six.
From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall
Yet, since a few detonating meteors have been found to proceed from ascertained radiants of shooting-stars, it is difficult to suppose that any generic difference separates them.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
These are described as "meteors with stationary radiants," since for months together they seem to come from the same fixed points in the sky.
From A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition by Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
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