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n. (context astronomy English) The side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits
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Nightside may refer to:
- "Nightside with Dan Rea", which is a non-syndicated talk radio show hosted by Dan Rea and running on WBZ 1030, the oldest surviving commercial radio station in New England. Nightside runs from 8 to Midnight on weeknights.
- The Canadian late-night radio talk show The Nightside, hosted by Mark Elliot
- NBC Nightside, NBC's now-defunct late night news program, comparable to ABC's World News Now and CBS' Up to the Minute.
- Nightside (book series), a series of fantasy-noir novels by author Simon Green
- Nightside, a fictional character in the Marvel Universe, is a member of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.
- Nightside is also a comic-book miniseries published in 2001-2002 by Marvel comics and Robert Weinberg.
- nightside or night side, that portion of the Earth, other planetary body, or moon characterized by darkness that faces away and opposite to the direction of sunlight/starlight defined by the terminator (solar) line.
Nightside is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.
Nightside is a now-completed series of twelve fantasy novels by author Simon R. Green. Green states on his site, regarding The Bride Wore Black Leather, "This is the last Nightside novel featuring John Taylor and friends and the last Nightside novel for the time being."
Nightside is a 1980 television pilot starring Doug McClure.
Usage examples of "nightside".
One port framed Saturn at half phase, dayside pale gold and rich bands amidst the jewelry of its rings, nightside wanly ashimmer with starlight and moonlight upon clouds, as big to the sight as Earth over Luna.
In areas like this, the twilight daughters could be scarier and more dangerous than most of the more obvious monsters in the Nightside.
The landing party had returned some hours before, and another one had been sent down to do surveys on the local flora and other nightside activities.
And years from now they could casually boast, over brainbuster cocktails or a humming jackbox, that they had seen Nightside City in its last days, and they would be the envy of their less fortunate partners in decadence.
Lady Mac was well over the nightside now, the swirl of particles around her forward fuselage glowing a faint pink as they were buffeted through the planetary magnetosphere.
Did I really want to stay in Nightside City, in my rundown little office in the burbs, taking two-buck jobs from the dregs of the city, hanging out at Lui's because I wasn't welcome anywhere better, ignored by my friends back in the Trap and by my father dreaming eternally in Trap Underjust sitting and waiting for the sun?
Ten meters away from the faceplate, in a direction I refused to think of as "down," was the surface of the asteroid -- the nightside, at the moment, its clinkery detail faintly visible in the dim light from my suit.
Because in the Nightside there are always Powers and Dominations ready to make use of them.
That the Powers and the Dominations of the Nightside would go to war with her, to preserve their vision of the Nightside, and everyone would lose?
What was ostensibly its nightside fluoresced near the bottom end of the visible spectrum, producing a weary emberlike glow which fluctuated in continental-sized patterns as the dense turbulent clouds raged in never ending cyclones.
The visitor plunged into the nightside of Doonarrala, making it a sinister shadow against the stars.
There was no break anywhere in the solid overcast of water vapour recondensing on its way back to nightside.
The combination of these two spins gave Mercury a very slow roll through its solar day, during which the brightside hemisphere became much too hot, while the nightside hemisphere became extremely cold.
The Nightside is a strange attractor for all kinds of traffic, from past, present, and future, and a lot of it tended towards the predatory.
They'd arrived in the Nightside after stumbling into Timeslips, and ended up stranded here when the Timeslips collapsed.