a confused aggregate of rays ...as they are promiscuously darted from the various parts of luminous bodies.
 
 
 
 
This Case is much the same, as if we shou'd suppose an English-man to meet a Foreigner, who used the same Words with the English, but in a direct contrary Signification. George Berkeley, An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision  
 
As Newton taught us: that the luminary detritus of the universe is both a heterogeneous mess and the stuff of pure light. 
Read Newton.
 
Read Berkeley.