Shining at night. Used especially of certain high clouds.
Fusion makes the stars shine.
There are a circle of small metal globes, lit from within, in Kendall Square . At school , there's a bridge at the far end of the lake where the water spills into the kill, and if you lie on your back crossways across the bridge, drop your head back over the edge, and look back across the lake, the reflection in the lake becomes a shiny sky. On cool nights in the spring and fall, when the lake is liquid and the water level's high, you can hang your head back and hear nothing but the rush of water and see nothing but the twinned stars in the lake and the sky. These places aren't marked in the admissions literature. They get passed down like star maps and secret ingredients, pieces of a secret undercurrent of real experience.