The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) stands beneath a star-studded sky illuminated by a ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. If you are an amateur astronomer, and comets, asteroids, meteors, and the zodiacal ...

Clear and easy to use, this guide shows you how to make successful and valuable observations and records of comets, asteroids, meteors and the zodiacal light. For each topic the historical background ...

Known as a “false dusk,” this so-called zodiacal light is sunlight reflecting off cosmic dust left in the solar system. Scientists now think there’s a similar glow around the solar system.

The dust particles, though very tiny, are also very reflective. Light from the Sun can reflect off the zodiacal dust and can ...

This image is ESO's image of the week, and features the lights of Mars and Venus, shining withing the blue-hued zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is a phenomenon that can occur just after sunset ...

The darkness of the outer Solar System enabled the scientists to isolate the COB by subtracting scattered light from bright stars and galaxies, faint stars, zodiacal light and diffuse light from ...

Sunrise: 6:28 A.M. Sunset: 7:31 P.M. Moonrise: 4:51 A.M. Moonset: 7:11 P.M. Moon Phase: Waning crescent (2%) The zodiacal light (left of center) spears up into the sky as seen from ESO’s Cerro ...

September evening skies are a mixture of summer constellations shining overhead and still dominating the western sky. While the eastern sky is full of the dimmer and less obvious autumn ...