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Zodiacal Light - By: Babak A. Tafreshi
The zodiacal light appears in the evening sky over volcanic landscape of Teide National Park, a World Heritage Site in Tenerife, Canary Islands. In the sky Jupiter (the brightest point) is next to the two bright stars of Gemini, Castor and Pollux (the Twins heads). The Beehive star cluster (M44) is near the top. The zodiacal light is sunlight reflection from asteroid dust in the Solar System plane. It is a faint, roughly triangular, whitish glow, seen only in dark night skies, which appears to extend up from the vicinity of the sun along the ecliptic, or zodiac.
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