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- Airglow (also called nightglow) is a faint emission of light by a planetary atmosphere. In the case of Earth's atmosphere, this optical phenomenon causes...
- Airglow is a pedal-driven human-powered aircraft. It was designed and developed by brothers John and Mark McIntyre of Cambridgeshire, England. John McIntyre...
- proteins. The Earth's night sky is illuminated by diffuse light, called airglow, that is produced by radiative transitions of atoms and molecules. Among...
- maximum darkness. Sources of the night sky's intrinsic brightness include airglow, indirect scattering of sunlight, scattering of starlight, and light pollution...
- atoms of sodium, the sodium layer radiates weakly to contribute to the airglow. The sodium has an average concentration of 400,000 atoms per cubic centimetre...
- a band of stratospheric blue sky at the horizon, and a line of green airglow of the lower thermosphere around an altitude of 100 km, at the edge of...
- moonlight, planetary light, starlight, zodiacal light, gegenschein, and airglow. In some cir****stances, aurorae, lightning, and bioluminescence can provide...
- Atmospheric optical phenomena include: Afterglow Airglow Alexander's band, the dark region between the two bows of a double rainbow. Alpenglow Anthelion...
- VLF waves ordinarily requires gigantic antennas Generating artificial Airglow, which is typically subvisual but routinely detectable.  Under certain...
- clear moonless night sky, including airglow 0.0002 lux Starlight, clear moonless night sky, excluding airglow 0.00014 lux Venus at brightest, clear...