The airglow phenomenon was first identified in 1868 by Swedish physicist Anders Ångström. Since then, it has been studied in the laboratory, and various chemical reactions … See more

In order to calculate the relative intensity of airglow, we need to convert apparent magnitudes into fluxes of photons; this clearly depends on the spectrum of the source, but we will ignore that initially. At visible wavelengths, we need the parameter S0(V), … See more

SwissCube-1 is a Swiss satellite operated by Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. The spacecraft is a single unit CubeSat, … See more

• Hues of red and green lighting up the sky are produced by airglow.
• Airglow over Paranal Observatory.
• Airglow over the VLT platform
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Airglow is caused by various processes in the upper atmosphere of Earth, such as the recombination of atoms which were photoionized by the Sun during the day, luminescence caused by cosmic rays striking the upper atmosphere, and chemiluminescence See more

Scientific experiments have been conducted to induce airglow by directing high-power radio emissions at the Earth's ionosphere. … See more

The Venus Express spacecraft contains an infrared sensor which has detected near-IR emissions from the upper atmosphere of See more