{"id":280963,"date":"2024-02-03T20:14:32","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T14:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=280963"},"modified":"2024-02-05T18:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-05T12:43:28","slug":"zodiacal-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zodiacal-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Zodiacal Light Skyglow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-281245 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?resize=574%2C447&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zodiacal Light Skyglow\" width=\"574\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?resize=300%2C234&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?resize=1024%2C800&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?resize=768%2C600&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Source-This post on<strong> Zodiacal light<\/strong> has been created based on the article &#8220;<strong>In zodiacal dust mystery, PRL Ahmedabad study points to a familiar source<\/strong>&#8221; published in &#8220;<strong>The Hindu<\/strong>&#8221; on 31 January 2024.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Why in The News?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Zodiacal Light Skyglow<\/strong>, Recently a scientist at Physics Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad have published a paper attributing dust from Mar&#8217;s two moon as the possible source of Zodiacal light.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>About Zodical Light<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>It is sunlight scattered by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">interplanetary dust<\/span>. This is visible from the earth as a <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">faint<\/span>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">diffuse<\/span> glow on completely dark nights.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Interplanetary dust<\/span> consists of <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">cosmic dust<\/span> (small particles floating in outer space) that pervades the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">space between planets<\/span> in solar system.<\/p>\n<p>It is present across the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">entire path of the ecliptic. <span style=\"color: #000000;\">This is <\/span><\/span>the path along which the Sun moves in the sky over the course of a year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_280965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-280965\" style=\"width: 743px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-280965 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zordiac-light.png?resize=743%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Zordiac light\" width=\"743\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zordiac-light.png?w=743&amp;ssl=1 743w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zordiac-light.png?resize=300%2C233&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-280965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source-NewScientist<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>-1) \u2018AU\u2019 stands for \u2018<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">astronomical unit<\/span>\u2019, which is the distance between the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">earth<\/span> and the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Sun.<\/span><br \/>\n2) Mars\u2019s has two moons called <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Deimos and Phobos<\/span>.<br \/>\n3)<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Stickney crater<\/span>-This is a 10-km-wide crater in <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Phobos.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Want To Read More Topics-<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Significance of 'We the People' in the Constitution - The path towards a pluralist civil society\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/significance-of-we-the-people-in-the-constitution-the-path-towards-a-pluralist-civil-society\/\">Significance of &#8216;We the People&#8217; in the Constitution<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"On Uttarakhand\u2019s Uniform Civil Code\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/on-uttarakhands-uniform-civil-code\/\">On Uttarakhand\u2019s Uniform Civil Code<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPSC Syllabus-Science &amp; technology.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source-This post on Zodiacal light has been created based on the article &#8220;In zodiacal dust mystery, PRL Ahmedabad study points to a familiar source&#8221; published in &#8220;The Hindu&#8221; on 31 January 2024. Why in The News? Zodiacal Light Skyglow, Recently a scientist at Physics Research Laboratory (PRL), Ahmedabad have published a paper attributing dust from&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/zodiacal-light\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Zodiacal Light Skyglow<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10374,"featured_media":281245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,1738],"tags":[11872],"class_list":["post-280963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-9pm-daily-factly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Zodiacal-Light-Skyglow.webp?fit=1280%2C1000&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}