How to Use nightside in a Sentence

nightside

noun
  • But on the nightside, the moon casts its dreamy glow out into the dark of space.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 10 Nov. 2020
  • Bash made a name for herself as a nightside reporter at News 5 for two years.
    — Joey Morona, cleveland.com, 30 June 2017
  • Its star-facing dayside is scorching, while its nightside is much cooler.
    — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Webb will constantly face the nightside of Earth as the spacecraft and planet swoop around the sun in unison.
    — Marcia Dunn, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2021
  • Wood explained that, even on the nightside, the surface of Venus is about 860 degrees.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • In this case, the temperature difference isn't a large one, meaning that heat likely flows from the dayside to the nightside.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 28 Jan. 2020
  • On the nightside, plasma from the sun instead deposits electrons, leaving the surface with a net negative charge.
    — Alison Klesman, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2019
  • As a result, the magnetic field on the dayside of our planet receives a little extra boost, while the nightside is slightly weaker.
    — National Geographic, 24 Feb. 2020
  • However, in some cases, lightning strikes happened mostly on the nightside, just past the day-night terminator line.
    — Paul Sutter, Space.com, 20 May 2025
  • BepiColombo will fly by the planet's nightside, so images during the closest approach wouldn't be able to show much detail.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
  • Fujii recorded the impacts using cameras aimed at the moon's nightside, sharing the dramatic videos on his X account.
    — Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • However, since the nightside is too dark to observe, astronomers can only detect these water molecules right at the border between day and night.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 8 Aug. 2018
  • These planets are tidally locked, so that the same side always faces the star, and depending on how much the heat gets redistributed, the dayside can be much hotter than the nightside.
    — John Wenz, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2019
  • Another photo shows the nightside of the whole Earth, featuring the Sun’s halo, auroras and city lights.
    — Christye Sisson, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
  • With such a close orbit, the planet is almost certainly tidally locked, meaning one side of the planet always faces the star, creating a dayside and a nightside.
    — Jay Bennett, Smithsonian, 21 Aug. 2019
  • But as those gases flow to the nightside of the planet, the hydrogen atoms are able to reconnect under the comparatively cooler conditions.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2020
  • Temperatures on its dayside climb high enough to vaporize metals, while previous studies have suggested that iron may condense and fall as rain on the cooler nightside.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 June 2026
  • The flyby spacecraft would reach periapsis 700 kilometers above a point near the equator at the center of Venus’s nightside.
    — David S. F. Portree, WIRED, 2 June 2012
  • The finding is consistent with powerful winds transporting heat from the planet's intensely hot dayside toward its cooler nightside, researchers say.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 16 June 2026
  • While the next two flybys will likely not allow the probe to image the nightside, scientists will continue to use other instruments to study Venus' space environment.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2022
  • This will reveal both the signatures of atmospheric ingredients such as water, methane, and carbon dioxide, and also how heat flows from the planet’s dayside to its nightside.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 16 Aug. 2017
  • One veteran nightside editor stormed out of a men’s room one night, grumbling about young reporters changing into running shorts for the workout that had replaced drinking as a supper-time activity.
    — Roger Showley, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Apr. 2018
  • With no shield to steer solar particles, the entire nightside sky can glow with diffuse green light, caused by oxygen atoms less than 60 miles (about 100 kilometers) above the surface.
    — Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The theory helps address a curious trend — the nightside of every hot Jupiter discovered so far was found to be at 1,000 degrees Kelvin.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 8 Jan. 2019
  • Amateur #radio & #GPS users expect signal disruptions on Earth's nightside.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 18 July 2022
  • At Venus, the camera detected a bright rim around the edge of the planet that may be nightglow — light emitted by oxygen atoms high in the atmosphere that recombine into molecules in the nightside, notes the space agency.
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Rapid winds carry this over to the nightside, where relatively cooler temperatures hover around 2,240 degrees Fahrenheit.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The light data also revealed something striking about the gas giant’s atmospheric conditions—a total lack of methane, which astronomers previously hypothesized may be detectable, at least on the nightside.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 1 May 2024
  • The Resilience Lander will set down in the area below Timaeus, to the left of Archytas, fairly close to the line dividing the dayside and nightside of the lunar surface, known as the terminator.
    — Anthony Wood, Space.com, 4 June 2025
  • In February 2018, Becker and her team decided to take Juno’s navigation camera—which typically looks at nearby stars—and take a peek at the Jupiter’s dark nightside.
    — Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Aug. 2020

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