afterglow
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One is indirect, based on predictions of our cosmological model tuned to match the patterns in the cosmic microwave background, the faint afterglow of the Big Bang.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Maybe it’s embedded human instinct, an afterglow of developing self-awareness of our own mortality, to consider existential risks.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Infantino had been basking in the warm afterglow of a highly successful World Cup -- the largest ever with 48 teams and co-hosted by three countries, Canada, Mexico and the US.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
He might have sounded accommodating in the afterglow of his trip, but U.S. officials say nothing was surrendered in the summit itself.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
It’s like a never-ending sunset, casting an endless afterglow on the land below.
From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer
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
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
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 William L. (William Le Roy) Stidger
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