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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Although the nightside never receives any direct radiation from the star, strong eastward winds transport heat around from the dayside.
From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024
A smeared-out thermal emission across both a world’s illuminated dayside and its dark nightside would suggest some medium for transporting heat from infalling starlight—that is, an atmosphere.
From Scientific American • May 11, 2023
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
Webb will constantly face the nightside of Earth as the spacecraft and planet swoop around the sun in unison.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 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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