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Resumen de Bright sky at night

Rebecca Boyle

  • Boyle discusses the mystery over the causes of bright nights or referred to as, nocturnal Sun in the studies PLiny the Elder, A Roman army commander who studied nature in his spare time. and bright stars. In 1909 L. Yntema, a doctoral student at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands has measured the total amount of light from all the stars reaching Earth's surface and found a discrepancy in the light on bright nights that seemed to point to some sort of atmospheric phenomenon as their cause which he called "Earthlight". While in the late 198os, Gordon Shepherd of York University in Toronto, Canada, built a satellite instrument called WINDII, which could monitor waves of air as they rolled through the atmosphere and found that these waves could pile up on top of one another to produce towers of pressurised air and could have produced about 7 per cent of the time any given spot on Earth.


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