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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 counterglow
 對日照

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Coun·ter·glow n. Astron. An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 counterglow
      n : a faint spot of light in the night sky that appears directly
          opposite the position of the sun; a reflection of
          sunlight by micrometeoric material in space [syn: gegenschein]