On nights with little to no ambient light from the moon, a ghostly glow shaped like a hazy pyramid of light can be seen for a ...

Zodiacal light, often called "false dusk," is a phenomenon caused by sunlight scattering off interplanetary dust particles within the solar system. These dust particles, comprising remnants from ...

The Pleiades star cluster and bright Jupiter appear about halfway up inside the zodiacal light's "pointed finger." Orion is to the left. For a brightness comparison, the faint winter Milky Way ...