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light echo
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Noun
light echo (plural light echos or light echoes)
- (astronomy) A phenomenon caused by light reflected off surfaces distant from the source, and arriving at the observer with a delay relative to this distance, analogous to an echo of sound.
Translations
phenomenon observed in astronomy
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