The mysterious woman enters in a fabulous costume, but her enormous black hat threatens to blot out the light.
Dark nebulae appear as irregularly shaped black patches in the sky and blot out the light of the stars that lie beyond them.
In a few cases planets can even be seen directly, using clever tricks to blot out the light of the stars they orbit, and researchers are starting to analyse the light from planets to determine the characteristics of their atmospheres.
Next decade, a new generation of extremely large telescopes or space-based observatories may be able to blot out the light of Proxima Centauri and gather the planet's light directly, producing our first direct look at another potentially habitable world. .
SPHERE was designed to directly observe planets around other stars, so it's equipped with a mask to blot out the light from a star so that fainter things around it can be seen.
Even at the height of summer, even under the midday sun, they are places of murk and mystery, blotting out the light with a mille-feuille of foliage.
No wonder so little grows under the canopy of a beech wood, a crowd of overlapping umbrellas giving shelter, blotting out the light.
There was only ungovernable profusion, blotting out the light, gorging on the lush compost of the dead".
But as I drank my coffee a thick sea of clouds came blowing in from the west, blotting out the light, leaving only a broad band of diffuse sunrise in the east.
Mr. Hembrey likes to refer to an old Russian description of darkness as "so filled with something that there is no room for light," or, in the words of the Latvian writer Anita Vanaga, "darkness as inpenetrable multitude that blots out the light".
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