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afterglows

  • plural
    of afterglow.
    afterglow
    noun
    the glow frequently seen in the sky after sunset; afterlight.

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For my thesis, I set out to find afterglows without relying on a trigger from a satellite.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020

And finally, right at the end of graduate school, two actual cosmological afterglows, one of which turned out to have an associated gamma-ray burst.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020

Still, even with two afterglows in hand, I cannot definitively answer the questions I originally set out to answer.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020

Astronomers looked fruitlessly for afterglows from short-duration gamma-ray bursts found by BeppoSAX and other satellites.

From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016

It seemed to be written in the stars, in the glory of the desert dawns, in the haunting afterglows of the sunset.

From Comrade Yetta by Albert Edwards