The Rollercoaster Project is one of those musicians whose music makes bloggers want to spew out crap like this: Exploding starlight bounces round the womb shimmering on the unborn Martian eyelids and setting the first glimmers of thought buzzing through the synapses, flowing finally into the sea of comprehension.
This blots out the starlight more effectively, making it easier to see any nearby planets.In order for this technique to work, the distortions imposed on the incoming light during its passage through the Earth's atmosphere must be removed using a trick called "wavefront correction".
This is attributed to the scattering of the starlight from dust grains that have been partially aligned in a weak interstellar magnetic field.
In this new case, though, the flutter in the starlight rises and falls in peculiar ways that suggest something big enough to block vast areas of light while being irregular enough in its transit to suggest something made and manipulated more than something dutifully following a near-Newtonian path.
The author of "Starlight," this week's story, chats with the magazine's fiction editor.
Since new shows designed to set off this brand of starlight don't come around much anymore, it is easy to see why Mr. Mitchell -- who won a Tony as, well, a musical matinee idol in "Kiss Me, Kate" -- would be seduced by the idea of "Man of La Mancha," Dale Wasserman, Mitch Leigh and Joe Darion's starry-eyed retelling of Cervantes's "Don Quixote," which became a sleeper superhit in 1965.
For that's ultimately Safina's point, a point made with more grace than this bundle of starlight can, though he's not the first to make it, nor will he be the last.
This dusty doughnut, the astronomers realised, acts like a mask, blocking the starlight emanating from the star's equator.
On the bright side, I did come up with this joke that isn't funny: I just farted in from the starlight, and boy is my asshole tired.
The idea is this: As a planet passes in front of its star, some of the starlight will penetrate the planet's atmosphere, which appears as a thin outline surrounding the disk of the planet.
This phenomenon is known as gravitational redshift because the longer wavelengths make the starlight appear redder.
