Astronomers used 200,000 Hubble Space Telescope images to discover an eerie glow surrounding the solar system even after all other light sources have been eliminated.

The glow is explained by sunlight reflecting from this shell. “The possibility that I think is most likely is that it comes from dust left behind from comets in the solar system,” Carleton said.

At present, it’s unclear where this residual glow is coming from, but astronomers have an idea. As comets enter the inner solar system, following their orbit toward closest approach with the Sun ...

The glow might be the result of an unknown structure within our solar system, scientists have speculated. It may include a sphere of dust that is made up from comets that are falling into the ...

Researchers using data from the Hubble Space Telescope have made a strange discovery: there's a ghostly light surrounding our solar system.

To measure this glow, the team had to subtract all the light from stars, galaxies, planets, and dust in the plane of our Solar System (also known as zodiacal light). After this subtraction, a faint ...

A group of astronomers sorted through 200,000 images from Hubble in order to look for any residual background glow in the sky.

Hubble detects ghostly glow surrounding our solar system Date: December 9, 2022 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: Imagine walking into a room at night, turning out all the lights ...

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleagues suggest the possibility interstellar space object 3I/ATLAS is generating "its ...

New Horizons may have seen a hydrogen wall just past the edge of the solar system, where the solar wind meets the stuff of interstellar space.

67"It may be a new element to the contents of the solar system that has been hypothesized but not quantitatively measured until now." Glow Up Someone forgot to turn the lights out.