afterglow
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The cosmic microwave background — the afterglow of the Big Bang — shows a small but persistent asymmetry: a preference for one spatial orientation over its mirror image.
From Science Daily ● May 22, 2026
We lived in the missions’ afterglow, with orange-flavored Tang, syndicated “Star Trek” reruns, and “Star Wars” filling in for actual lunar landings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
The couple will still be on a high after all the festivities and luxuriating in the afterglow of the love — and cash — bestowed upon them.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 13, 2026
Whether they take his advice literally remains to be seen, but the celebrations were significant in the afterglow of victory.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
This cosmic background radiation was the afterglow of the big bang.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
And finally, right at the end of graduate school, two actual cosmological afterglows, one of which turned out to have an associated gamma-ray burst.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
Still, even with two afterglows in hand, I cannot definitively answer the questions I originally set out to answer.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
For my thesis, I set out to find afterglows without relying on a trigger from a satellite.
From Scientific American ● Nov. 17, 2020
Astronomers looked fruitlessly for afterglows from short-duration gamma-ray bursts found by BeppoSAX and other satellites.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
"Looks for all the world like one of our Arizona afterglows."
From Soldier Silhouettes on our Front by Stidger, William L. (William Le Roy)
