The Jewel Stars
For the blackness of the interstellar void was not the dark of an earthly night, but the absolute black of the absence of all light, beside which the black of platinum dust is pale and gray; and laid upon this velvet were the jewel stars. They were not the twinkling, scintillating beauties of the earthly sky, but minute points, so small as to seem dimensionless, yet of dazzling brilliance.
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Context: The travelers look out of the Skylark's window at the stars seen from deep space.
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Source: Chapter XI, Through Space Into the Carboniferous