Day and night side
In astronomy, the day side is the side of a celestial body illuminated by the sun, e.g. a planet , moon or a comet . The counterpart to this is the night side , i.e. the side of a celestial body facing away from the sun. The terms are also used for exoplanets , in which case their central star takes on the role of the sun.
In particular, the term “night side” is often used in a figurative sense. Sometimes the meaning is close to the term "shadow side". Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert (1780–1860), who lectured on the dark side of science , is very well known in this context . According to Schubert, the “day side of natural science” is the side of nature enlightened by human reason. The night side are the phenomena of nature that are not grasped by reason and can only be conveyed through feeling and therefore lie indefinitely in the twilight and are therefore referred to the realm of superstition for the enlightened consciousness or viewed as pathological.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Thalmann: First direct image of a possible cool planet around a sun-like star. Press release on December 3, 2009.
- ^ Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert: Views from the night side of natural science. Dresden 1808 ( online )
- ^ Otto Friedrich Bollnow : Between Philosophy and Pedagogy. Page 151, Weitz, Aachen 1988 ( online ( memento of the original from October 26, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note .; PDF ; 161 kB)
