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Zodiacal light

The zodiacal light (also called false dawn when seen before sunrise) is a faint glow of diffuse sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust. Brighter around the Sun, it appears in a particularly dark night sky to extend from the Sun's direction in a roughly triangular shape along the zodiac, and appears with less intensity and visibility along the whole ecl…

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Zodiacal light → a lens-shaped volume of space centered on the Sun and extending well out beyond the orbit of Earth

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Zodiacal lightlocated ina lens-shaped volume of space centered on the Sun and extending well out beyond the orbit of Earth0.90text
comet 67P/Churyumovinstance ofnew results from the secondary ion dust spectrometer COSIMA on board the ESA/Rosetta orbiter confirmed that the parent bodies of interplanetary dust are most probably Jupiter-fa…0.80text
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