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

The photographer, James Baguley, chose a starless image to emphasise the beautiful red background, which is a dense backdrop of hydrogen gas.

From BBC • Sep. 14, 2023

Operators will also point the telescope at starless areas of sky to understand the “dark current” created by thermal noise in the instrument itself.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 23, 2022

“I think I’m lost in my mentality./Adrift, floating in the starless night sky./ I don’t know if I’m waiting for death/or waiting to become alive.”

From Seattle Times • Jun. 2, 2021

He rode deeper and he rode through gathering darkness: from gloom to twilight to night to a pitch-black starless dark.

From "Norse Mythology" by Neil Gaiman