gegenschein in English
noun
1
a patch of very faint nebulous light sometimes seen in the night sky opposite the position of the sun. It is thought to be the image of the sun reflected from gas and dust outside the atmosphere.
But the gegenschein is very faint, a few magnitudes fainter than the Milky Way.
noun
counterglow
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1. 14 The gegenschein is sunlight back-scattered off small interplanetary dust particles.