coun|ter|glow

coun|ter|glow
coun|ter|glow «KOWN tuhr GLOH», noun.
Astronomy. a patch of extremely faint light seen in the heavens near the apparent path of the sun (ecliptic) at a point exactly opposite to the sun; Gegenschein.

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