Using data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers have made a startling discovery: “ghost lights” orbiting our sun. When you factor in the light from stars, planets, and even starlight scattered by dust, there’s still “extra” light present, and astronomers are trying to figure out where it’s coming from.
Researchers examined 200,000 Hubble images in a project called SKYSURF, looking for any light from known sources, and found a faint glow that could 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’s 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 was not as strong as the afterglow.
said one of the researchers, Tim Carlton. of Arizona State University, in its statement: “Because our measurement of residual light is higher than that of 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 could explain the existence of a dust ball that has so far been hidden because it takes many images from the most famous instrument like Hubble to show it.
