While she waited for the bombing attack to end, her cameras recorded the explosions, which lit up the rooftops of the city.

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They are lit with a striking blue light and seem to glow in the dark room.

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They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

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At Coaley Junction in Gloucestershire, the mail train froze and a fire had to be lit underneath it to defrost parts of the engine.

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The cosmos was born in the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago, and the first stars in the universe are thought to have lit up about 100 million years afterward, when gas finally gathered in clumps dense enough to collapse under their own gravity and ignite nuclear fusion.

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Managers patrol every new store with light meters to make sure aisles are lit to the company standard of 90 footcandles.

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