green flash

noun

a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.

green flash

astronomy a flash of bright green light sometimes seen as the sun passes below the horizon, caused by a combination of the dispersion, scattering, and refraction of light

First recorded in 1910–15

You can see in the video some green flashes just before landing.

His mind returned again to the riddles that confronted him: the green flash and the strange mechanism on the peak.

They saw a green flash stream through the water, and the next moment the model had crumbled to pieces and sank.

In about twenty seconds came a roar and a crash of rending steel, accompanied by a vivid green flash.

At length a brilliant green flash shot up through the smoke clouds over the river mouth.

My brother, keeping watch beside the women in the chaise in a meadow, saw the green flash of it far beyond the hills.

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