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afterglows

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

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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

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

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

So long as that vast amount of dust remained in the air did the sunsets and afterglows display an exceptional wealth of colouring.

From Meteorology or Weather Explained by J. G. M'Pherson