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
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
Beyer said the material works by reflecting radiant heat and blocking embers from entering the structure.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026
In the film, a laconic Kevin Costner is charged with protecting the life of a singer—Whitney Houston, so radiant that she eventually turns his stoicism into Jell-O.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Each one cups a glass lotus-shaped votive—their faces radiant above the candlelight.
From "Love, Hate & Other Filters" by Samira Ahmed
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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
Observe that the principal radiants are situated upon the boundary of the dark regions or at the oases.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
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
These nodal points will not, however, afford a general explanation of the many-branched radiants.
From The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly
He gave a bound, remaining fastened to the ground by one of his radiants, and raised the others like a bundle of reptiles.
From Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel by Charlotte Brewster Jordan
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