Afterglow

The afterglow is the broad high arch of whitish or rosy light, appearing occasionally in the sky, above the highest clouds in the hour of deepening twilight, or reflected from the high snowfields in mountain regions long after sunset.

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The phenomenon is due to very fine particles of dust suspended in the high regions of the atmosphere that produce a scattering effect upon the component parts of white light. After the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883, a remarkable series of red sunsets appeared all over the world. These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a great height by that terrific explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.

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Sky: The sky is often defined as the place a person sees when he or she looks up from the earth. Although almost everyone has seen it, the sky is hard to define precisely. The concept of the sky, as it is applied here on Earth, can be generalized to mean the hemisphere above the horizon, or above the vis...

Cloud: A cloud is a visible mass of condensation droplets or ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere above the surface of the Earth or another planetary body....

Twilight: :For the movie called Twilight see Twilight (movie)....

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