starstreams

Space had its share of lonely moments: the endless starstreams, the dislocation of warping space-time, the silence between the stars; but here, on terra firma, with the Golden Gate rising from the mist through the great bay windows of this conference room, it was possible to feel even lonelier.

Do Comets Dream? S. P. Somtow 2003

For the spacetraveler, no matter which his angle of approach, a remarkable spectacle was presented: constellations blazing white, blue, and red; curtains of luminous stuff, broken here, obscured there, by black storms of dust; starstreams wandering in and out; whorls and spatters of phosphorescent gas.

Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975