nightside
Americannoun
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Journalism. the night shift of a newspaper.
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Astronomy. the dark side of a planet or moon.
Etymology
Origin of nightside
Example Sentences
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A global magma ocean might move some heat from the dayside toward the nightside, but without an atmosphere the permanently dark side would solidify, limiting how much energy could be redistributed.
From Science Daily • Dec. 14, 2025
Whenever Hubble orbits on the nightside of Earth, it loses the view of the Sun and must store power in its batteries.
From The Verge • Jan. 24, 2022
From this gravity-balanced, fuel-efficient location, the telescope will keep pace with Earth while orbiting the sun, continuously positioned on Earth’s nightside.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 20, 2021
The combined light of the star and orbiting planet should change subtly as observers receive light from the planet’s dayside, nightside, and varying mixtures of the two.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 11, 2021
It was near the dusk of the 485-hour Venerian day, and the Twilight Gale already had arisen, sweeping from the comparatively chill Venerian nightside into the superheated dayside.
From Wind by Fontenay, Charles Louis
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