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Earthshine

Also called: ashen light.

The faint glow on the dark part of a crescent Moon — sunlight reflected off the Earth.

From the Moon, a nearly full Earth hangs in the sky and lights up the lunar night. We see that light reflected back as a ghostly grey glow on the unlit part of a thin crescent, often called “the old Moon in the new Moon's arms”.

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