Tag Archive for 'Zodiacal light'

This artist’s illustration shows the location and size of a hypothetical cloud of dust surrounding our Solar System. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Andi James, STScI.

Astronomers Detect Residual Glow around Our Solar System

Dec 8, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers with the SKYSURF project have searched through 200,000 archival images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and made tens of thousands...

This photo shows the zodiacal light as it appeared on March 1, 2021, in Skull Valley, Utah, the United States; the Pleiades star cluster is visible near the top of the light column; Mars is just below that. Image credit: Bill Dunford / NASA.

Martian Storms May Be Responsible for Interplanetary Dust behind Zodiacal Light

Mar 10, 2021 by News Staff

The zodiacal light is sunlight reflected by interplanetary dust in the inner Solar System. Variations in the zodiacal light with ecliptic latitude reveal...

This artist's view from an imagined planet around a nearby star shows the brilliant glow of exozodiacal light extending up into the sky and swamping the Milky Way. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

Scientists Detect Exozodiacal Light around Nine Nearby Stars

Nov 4, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) have discovered exozodiacal light – starlight reflected from dust created as...

Zodiacal light scattered from dust grains in our Solar System is seen rising diagonally up to the left in this image, as the plane of the Milky Way rises up to the right (Tunc Tezel / TWAN / APOD).

Astronomers Study Solar System’s Interplanetary Nanodust

Sep 10, 2013 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has used the Low Frequency Receiver onboard the twin Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory (STEREO) to learn more...