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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- optical phenomenon
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- Gegenschein above the VLT.jpg
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- has cause
- scattering
- different from
- zodiacal light
- direction
- antisolar point
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- Gegenschein
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- 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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