Nightsky

Quick meaning: Nightsky is a noun meaning Alternative form of night sky.

Meaning

Alternative form of night sky.

Example Sentences

Measures of the interstellar Ca ii K line and the mercury nightsky lines indicate that the spectrograph was stable during the run, and that the standard error of measurement of a single line is about 15 km s⁻¹.[…]Hγ may contain weak Hg nightsky lines,[…]

Another important problem in cosmology is: Why is the nightsky dark? It has, in fact, been said that we could use this observation to show that the universe is expanding. We now realize that this isn’t true. The well-known early astronomer Johannes Kepler was the first to see that there was a difficulty with the dark nightsky. To him, the problem centered around whether or not the universe was infinite. If it was infinite, Kepler was sure the nightsky should be bright.

Word Forms

• nightskies

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include night and day, fullmoon, day-sight, quasimoon, nightschool, crepuscle.

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