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Sun setting in Mumbai
A sunset, which in some American dialects is called a sundown, is the time where the Sun goes below the horizon to the West. It is not dusk, which is the point when darkness begins, which can be sometime after the Sun sets, this begins twilight. The opposite of the sunset is the sunrise.
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The full cycle of a sunset on the High Plains of the Mojave Desert.
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Evening twilight in Joshua Tree, California, USA displaying the separation of orange colors in the direction from the Sun below the horizon to the observer, and the blue components scattered from the surrounding sky
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Illuminated downdraft wind shear clouds in the eastern sky near dusk mimic aurora borealis in the Mojave Desert
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Sunset on Mars
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Just after sunset, Woodlands, Singapore
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Sunset in Brela, Croatia
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A red sunset near Swifts Creek, Australia
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Minutes before sunset near Gulf of Paria, Trinidad and Tobago
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Silhouettes of fishermen during a sunset in Payallar, Alanya
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Sunset in Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, Brazil
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Sunset view of the Paranal Observatory, featuring two comets that were moving across the southern skies.
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The very beginning of sunset over the Mojave Desert during extreme haze due to fires in California in the summer of 2016.