Zodiacal Light above The Pacific Ocean | Earth Science

Zodiacal Light above The Pacific Ocean | Earth Science

The Zodiacal light above the Pacific Ocean from the Atacama Desert in Chile.🤩 

What's that strange light? 

Dust orbiting the Sun. At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset—or just before sunrise—and is called zodiacal light. Although the origin of this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and that it slowly spirals into the Sun.

Image Credit: Yuri Beletsky
Yuri's Website: https://t.co/R7LL6StS9N
Release Date: Oct. 15, 2025

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