: facing the sun
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New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
How exactly Earth’s sunward sister world went so far astray is one of the greatest mysteries of planetary science—and a potential keystone for astrobiology.
—Leonard David, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
As the comet continued its sunward voyage and absorbed more energy from our star, its trailing tail of escaping gas and dust correspondingly grew.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
This occurred in both Pioneers, manifesting as a sunward acceleration of 8.74 ± 1.33 × 10−10 m/s2.
—Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
The Hubble images captured an energetic geyser, almost 2,500 miles high (4,000 kilometers), shooting out from the sunward side of the comet.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
In that sense, the sunward journey of Comet ISON is a homecoming after a long exile.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
Propulsion systems and solar panels would go on the sunward side, and the optics and instruments, which must operate below minus 223 degrees Celsius, would huddle on the dark side.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
The temperature on the bottom layer--the most sunward side--will reach about 185°F, not far from the boiling point of water.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 June 2017
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Adverb
Turtles, snakes and voles stretch sunward after months of subterranean winter.
—New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
Adjective
That’s because, like Earth, its spin axis is tilted with respect to its orbit around the sun, so the hemisphere tilted sunward changes, causing seasons.
—Jamie Carter, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
How exactly Earth’s sunward sister world went so far astray is one of the greatest mysteries of planetary science—and a potential keystone for astrobiology.
—Leonard David, Scientific American, 14 Nov. 2023
As the comet continued its sunward voyage and absorbed more energy from our star, its trailing tail of escaping gas and dust correspondingly grew.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Sep. 2023
This occurred in both Pioneers, manifesting as a sunward acceleration of 8.74 ± 1.33 × 10−10 m/s2.
—Doug Adler, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2018
The Hubble images captured an energetic geyser, almost 2,500 miles high (4,000 kilometers), shooting out from the sunward side of the comet.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
In that sense, the sunward journey of Comet ISON is a homecoming after a long exile.
—Corey S Powell, Discover Magazine, 30 Sep. 2013
Propulsion systems and solar panels would go on the sunward side, and the optics and instruments, which must operate below minus 223 degrees Celsius, would huddle on the dark side.
—Quanta Magazine, 3 Dec. 2021
The temperature on the bottom layer--the most sunward side--will reach about 185°F, not far from the boiling point of water.
—Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 22 June 2017
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“Sunward.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sunward. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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sunward
1 of 2 adverb
sun·ward
ˈsən-wərd 
: toward the sun
the planet tilted sunward
sunward
2 of 2 adjective
: facing the sun
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