Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers made a surprising discovery: the “ghost lights” orbiting our sun. When light from stars, planets, and even starlight scattered by dust is accounted for, there is still “extra” light present and astronomers are trying to figure out where it comes from.
Researchers looked at 200,000 Hubble images in a project called SKYSURF, looking for any light from known sources, and found a faint glow that might indicate previously unknown features in our sun. One theory is that there may be a cloud of dust surrounding the planets that orbits the sun, reflecting sunlight and causing light.
There is support for this idea from NASA’s New Horizons mission, which flew by Pluto in 2015 and is now on its way to orbit the star. Digitartlends said this light wasn’t as strong as the last flare.
said one of the researchers, Tim Carlton. of Arizona State University, in his statement, “Because our measurement of residual light is higher than New Horizons, we believe it is a local event not far from the solar system. It has been suggested but not confirmed.
The source of this phantom cloud of dust is the comet. This may explain the existence of a ball of dust that has been hidden until now because it takes many images from the most famous instrument such as Hubble to show it.
