gegenschein
Sign in to savethumb|300px|The gegenschein appears in this image as a bright spot on the diagonal band (running top left to lower right) above the Very Large Telescope. (The [[Andromeda Galaxy and Pleiades are prominent in the lower half of the image.)]]
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Within Vinony's link graph, gegenschein is referenced by 41 other articles, and connects out to interplanetary dust cloud, International Standard Book Number and Alexander von Humboldt.
It is catalogued under topics including German words and phrases, Observational astronomy and Optical phenomena.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- optical phenomenon
- Image
- Gegenschein above the VLT.jpg
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- has cause
- scattering
- different from
- zodiacal light
- direction
- antisolar point
- Commons category
- Gegenschein
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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thumb|300px|The gegenschein appears in this image as a bright spot on the diagonal band (running top left to lower right) above the Very Large Telescope. (The [[Andromeda Galaxy and Pleiades are prominent in the lower half of the image.)]]
Gegenschein (; ; ) or counterglow is a faintly bright spot in the night sky centered at the antisolar point. The backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust causes this optical phenomenon, being a zodiacal light and part of its zodiacal light band.
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