Zodiacal light and gegenschein, Namibia. At right, the white light reaching up into the sky is zodiacal light, sunlight reflected from dust particles

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Zodiacal light and gegenschein, Namibia. At right, the white light reaching up into the sky is zodiacal light, sunlight reflected from dust particles orbiting in the plane of the solar system. Also visible is a phenomenon called gegenschein (left), an example of sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust.

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