halo
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The featured object is NGC 6426, a globular cluster located in the outer halo of the Milky Way.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 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
Qualcomm’s stock finally seems to have an artificial-intelligence halo.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 27, 2026
My hair was standing up straight in all directions—a huge sphere of blond fuzz surrounding me like a giant halo.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
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
Andromeda is so close to the Milky Way that their individual haloes may be interacting, bumping into each other as the two galaxies pass in space.
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
Above them, the ceiling light dropped haloes in their hair as they listened on.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
Many conventional beams produce "sidelobes" -- blurred halos that reduce image clarity.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 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
These include additional exotic interactions, Axion halos, and CPT violation studies.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 6, 2025
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
Two of the women, in the front rank of the crowd, wore halos.
From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger
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
It opens with Patti Smith in silhouette, haloed by her raggedy hair, and the snarling opening lyrics to her anthemic song “Gloria.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2020
They are just blurry black-and-white photos with little points of haloed brightness.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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
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
Her hair is a frizzy nest haloing her plump white face.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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
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