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What is airglow? This glowing light is not an aurora

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What is airglow? This glowing light is not an aurora
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View at EarthSky Community Photos. | Makrem Larnaout in Morneg, Tunisia, captured this image – with airglow – on June 18, 2023. Thank you, Makrem! And what a fantastic display! Read more about this image.
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What is airglow?
Airglow is the light of excited atoms high in Earth’s atmosphere. And it’s usually too faint for the eye alone to see. But

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