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In places remote from artificial illumination at night, with no moon, the luminosity of the sky is due to several sources of light, all of which are at a considerable distance. The sources are (1) radiations from the gases of the upper atmosphere, (2) polar aurorae, (3) zodiacal light, (4) comets and possibly scattered sunlight in interplanetary space (if there is something there to scatter the sunlight), and (5) stars and nebulae in interstellar space.
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Hulburt, E.O. (1951). Night-Sky Radiations from the Upper Atmosphere. In: Malone, T.F. (eds) Compendium of Meteorology. American Meteorological Society, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-940033-70-9_29
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