2021年04月10日 Zodiacal Night Image Credit & Copyright: Jean-Francois Graffand Explanation: An intense band of zodiacal light is captured in this serene mountain and night skyscape from April 7. The panoramic view was recorded after three hours of hiking from a vantage looking west after sunset ac […]
2021年03月11日 Zodiacal Light and Mars Image Credit & Copyright: Joshua Rhoades Explanation: Just after sunset on March 7, a faint band of light still reaches above the western horizon in this serene, rural Illinois, night skyscape. Taken from an old farmstead, the luminous glow is zodiacal light,
2020 March 9 Milky Way and Zodiacal Light over Chile Image Credit & Copyright: Roman Ponča (ht: Masaryk U.) Explanation: What is the band of light connecting the ground to the Milky Way? Zodiacal light — a stream of dust that orbits the Sun in the inner Solar System. It is most easily seen
2020 February 27 Two Hemisphere Night Sky Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horálek/ESO, Juan Carlos Casado/IAC (TWAN) Explanation: The Sun is hidden by a horizon that runs across the middle in this two hemisphere view of Earth’s night sky. The digitally stitched mosaics were recorded from co
2019 July 24 Zodiacal Road Image Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov (RMS Photography) Explanation: What’s that strange light down the road? 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 sunse
