This image beautifully captures the zodiacal light, a triangular glow seen best in night skies free of overpowering moonlight and light pollution.
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky
Credit: ESO/Y. Beletsky
In this episode, Astronomy magazine Editor Emeritus Dave Eicher invites you to head out on a clear moonless night to see one of the faintest glows in our sky — the zodiacal light. Seen either in the west after evening twilight or in the east before morning twilight, the zodiacal light appears as a faint triangular glow that follows the ecliptic, along which are the constellations of the zodiac — thus the name. Good luck!
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