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Hubble Detects Ghostly Glow Surrounding Our Solar System

A survey of the residual light in the night sky has uncovered an eerie, omnipresent glow spread throughout the Solar System, thought to be caused by sunlight reflected from cometary dust. Over its 30-plus years of operations, astronomers have become accustomed to subtracting the background light from the Solar System from Hubble’s images. They are ...

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