It has thus driven many technological developments such as a light carbon-fiber active optics, a daylight star-tracker, high sensitivity 300 mK bolometers and a pointing system with a 5 arc-seconds accuracy.
As the winter hemisphere tilts steadily further away from the star, daylight becomes shorter and the sun arcs ever lower.
More beads of light follow, the Sun's crescent grows again, the corona disappears, daylight brightens, and the stars and planets fade from view.
By studying the birds as they traveled during the Arctic summer, when there is nearly constant daylight, navigation by the stars could be eliminated.
Its narrator, Lian Song Wang Leehomm), is a sensitive hit man who muses out loud far too many times about his desire to see the stars in broad daylight.
The stars have gone, but daylight has not replaced them when I smell the deep, dark perfume of coffee.
For reasons as obvious as daylight and its nurturing warmth, no single star commanded more attention at the 200th meeting of the American Astronomical Society here this week than the nearest and most familiar one: the Sun.
You can go to the beach in December, breathe the ocean air, and drink champagne under the stars until they disappear into daylight.
Boulter starred in two films in 2008, Daylight Robbery by filmmaker Paris Leonti, and Donkey Punch directed by Olly Blackburn.
Star was tragically shot in the midst of daylight by two NYPD officers while protecting her homeless owner in the middle of a seizure.
You certainly don't imagine any other French star of her generation hopping excruciatingly through the streets in broad daylight in her nightie.
