A new analysis of Hubble data has clinched it: There's too much light in the space around the Solar System.
Not much extra light, to be sure. Just a subtle, ghostly glow, a faint excess that can't be accounted for in a census of all the light-emitting objects.
All the stars and galaxies surrounding the Solar System – and zodiacal light, aka dust on the Solar System's plane – none of these can explain what astronomers are now calling"ghost light".SKYSURFAnd, moreover, they can't quite account for it. There are possibilities, but none of them have been confirmed. Not yet, anyway.
The strongest possibility? A dust component to the Solar System that we haven't yet directly detected: tiny particles of dust and ice from a population of comets traveling inwards from the dark reaches of the Solar System, reflecting sunlight and generating a diffuse, global glow.extra light detected by the New Horizons space probe"If our analysis is correct there's another dust component between us and the distance where New Horizons made measurements.
There's a lot of really bright stuff floating around the Universe: planets, stars, galaxies, even gas and dust. And generally, the bright stuff is the stuff we want to look at. So detecting ambient light in the interstitial places – interplanetary, interstellar, and intergalactic space – is a tricky thing to do.
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