APOD - Zodiacal Road
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2025 August 10 Zodiacal Road Image Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov ( astrorms ) 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 sunset -- or just before sunrise -- and is called zodiacal light . Although the origin of this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and slowly spirals into the Sun . Recent analysis of dust emitted by Comet 67P , visited by ESA's robotic Rosetta spacecraft , bolsters this hypothesis. Pictured when climbing a road up to ...
