Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A low- or middle-latitude, more or less steady, faint photochemical luminescence visible in the upper atmosphere at night.
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- noun A faint
illumination in the night sky due tophotochemical luminescence in the upperatmosphere .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Manson part of the Cawese group is using sectional studies 31n to 78 n 01 hpa to 10 hpa measuring airglow and stratospheric warming.
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Three men worked up there making spectroscopic and interferometric studies of airglow and auroral processes in the upper atmosphere.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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Much of the down-looking view was burned out by airglow around the torch.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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The highlights to watch for include constellations of city lights, lightning flashes in the clouds, the stars whirling in the night sky above, the faint brown-yellow atmospheric airglow that rims the eastern horizon, and the glorious dawn at the end. will be verified, but never shown: You're in Easy Mode.
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The result is an iconic blend of blue, pink and purple in the airglow that artists have often portrayed, but is rarely photographed.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Taken from ISS of northern hemisphere night pass showing aurora (red 630nm and green 557nm emissions), atmospheric airglow (scale height of the atmosphere is about 100km in the movie), cities at night, star motion, and lightening.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Government sponsored Eco-Terrorism; Looking for sightings of airglow in the ionosphere just before an earthquake or volcano
Smart Economy 2010
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As these particles interact with the ionosphere of Saturn and its rings and moons, they create "airglow emissions."
AvaxHome 2010
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Taken from ISS of northern hemisphere night pass showing aurora (red 630nm and green 557nm emissions), atmospheric airglow (scale height of the atmosphere is about 100km in the movie), cities at night, star motion, and lightening.
WN.com - Articles related to Africa making dramatic strides in malaria fight 2010
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Electromagnetic radiation given off as a result of exothermic chemical reactions in a planet's atmosphere causes a night airglow, or nightglow.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences current issue 2009
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It's dark enough here that when there's no moon, you may be able to see a phenomenon called "airglow": the blue luminescence given off by cosmic ray strikes and chemical reactions in the atmosphere itself.
These Are California's 10 Darkest Places For Stargazing Chris Clarke 2022
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