A luminous band of zodiacal light, also known as the false dawn, was recently captured in a night skyscape over the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve in Ladakh, India. The image, recorded just before astronomical twilight during a September star party, reveals Jupiter and Mars amidst the faint glow.
At an altitude of approximately 4,500 meters, the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve provides ideal conditions for stargazing and astrophotography. The photograph also shows meteors streaking across the night sky and the open star cluster M44.
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has detected interplanetary dust, suggesting that Mars is the source of the dust that scatters sunlight and creates the zodiacal light visible on Earth. NASA also announced that its Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website is moving from apod.nasa.gov to science.nasa.gov/apod.
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