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Things that glow in the dark

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Almost Everything in the Universe Does Already Glow, Right?

Almost everything in the universe does already actually glow. It just might not be hot enough to glow in the visible light spectrum. This is something in physics we call black yradiation. The hotter you are, the higher the frequency of the photons you emit. And that's why, example, the earth glows, but it doesn't glow in thevisible spectrum like the sun does.

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