Zodiacal light is a faint, roughly triangular, diffuse white glow seen in the night sky that appears to extend up from the vicinity of the Sun along the ecliptic or zodiac. It is best seen just after sunset in spring, and just before sunrise in autumn, when the zodiac is at a steep angle to the horizon. Caused by sunlight scattered by space dust i...
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Cone of light that can be observed above the horizon before sunrise or after sunset. This is caused by small particles of reflected sunlight.
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band of light in the night sky, thought to be sunlight reflected from meteoroids concentrated in the plane of the zodiac, or ecliptic. The light is ... [1 related articles]
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A faint glow of light scattered off the zodiacal dust; it can sometimes be seen under very dark sky conditions, along the horizon, either just after dusk or before sunrise.
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A cone of light stretching from the horizon along the ecliptic. It is only seen during good sky conditions when the Sun is a few degrees below the horizon. It is caused by fine, thinly spread interplanetary material lying close to the plane of the solar system.
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A faint glow from light scattered off interplanetary dust in the plane of the ecliptic.
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The zodiacal light is a faint luminous glow in the sky that can be observed on a moonless night on the western horizon after sunset or on the eastern horizon before sunrise. It is caused by the scattering of sunlight by dust particles in interplanetary space.
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Zodiacal light is cone-shaped light sometimes seen extending from the Sun along the ecliptic, and visible after sunset or before sunrise. It is due to thinly spread dust particles in the central plane of the Solar System. It is very faint, and requires a dark, clear sky to be seen.
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A faint cone of light that can sometimes be seen above the horizon after sunset or before sunrise. Zodiacal light is caused by sunlight reflecting off small particles of material in the plane of the Solar System.
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n] - a luminous tract in the sky
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A faint cone of light extending upward from the horizon in the direction of the ecliptic (zodiac). It is seen from tropical latitudes for a few hours after sunset or before sunrise.The spectrum of the zodiacal light is similar to that of sunlight, so it has been suggested that it is due to the scattering of sunlight by extraterrestrial dust particl...
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noun a luminous tract in the sky; a reflection of sunlight from cosmic dust in the plane of the ecliptic; visible just before sunrise and just after sunset
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Cone-shaped light sometimes seen extending from the Sun along the ecliptic (that is, the path that the Sun appears to follow each year as it is orbited by Earth), visible after sunset or before sunrise. It is due to thinly spread dust particles in the central plane of the Solar System. It is very faint, and requires a dark, clear sky to be seen...
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a luminous tract in the sky, seen in the west after sunset or in the east before sunrise and thought to be the light reflected from a cloud of meteoric matter revolving round the sun.
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