A 'false dusk' will be visible during twilight in February, but only from locations that are free of light pollution. Here's ...

The European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) stands beneath a star-studded sky illuminated by a phenomenon known as zodiacal light, which is observed as a faint glow of ...

It’s called the zodiacal light. As evening twilight fades from view — around 60-90 minutes after sunset — begin looking toward the western sky for a huge, softly glowing pyramid of light.

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and spot the elusive zodiacal light. Caused by light reflecting and scattering off dust in the plane of our solar system, one of the best times to ...

That will make it a great time to see zodiacal light—sunlight reflecting off cosmic dust left in the solar system. You’ll need to be somewhere very dark in the northern hemisphere and look to ...