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What is a nightside?

What is a nightside? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (astronomy) The side of a planet that faces away from the sun around which it orbits
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Palik joined the Harrisburg paper in 2000 as a copy editor and page designer on the nightside news desk.
The spacecraft is approaching Ceres from the nightside and won't take any images until after it loops over the north pole in late April.
To take pictures of Pluto's nightside, the probe will use Charon as a mirror to bounce sunlight off Pluto's surface.
That portion of the Moon's nightside is dimly lit by the light of the nearly-full Earth in the Moon's sky.
My name is Nomis J. Arkdragen, assistant manager in charge of nightside dreams.
Like others who saw the phenomenon well, Firsoff described lighter areas within the general faintly illuminated nightside.

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