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                           Astronomy Picture of the Day   
      
       Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our   
         fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation   
                       written by a professional astronomer.   
      
                                  2025 August 10   
         A night sky is shown above a road going off into the distance. An   
        unusual area of brightened sky that does not block background stars   
      appears diagonally from the lower right across the sky. Please see the   
                    explanation for more detailed information.   
      
                                   Zodiacal Road   
              Image Credit & Copyright: Ruslan Merzlyakov (astrorms)   
      
      Explanation: What's that strange light down the road? Dust orbiting the   
      Sun. At certain times of the year, a band of sun-reflecting dust from   
      the inner Solar System appears prominently just after sunset -- or just   
      before sunrise -- and is called zodiacal light. Although the origin of   
      this dust is still being researched, a leading hypothesis holds that   
      zodiacal dust originates mostly from faint Jupiter-family comets and   
      slowly spirals into the Sun. Recent analysis of dust emitted by Comet   
      67P, visited by ESA's robotic Rosetta spacecraft, bolsters this   
      hypothesis. Pictured when climbing a road up to Teide National Park in   
      the Canary Islands of Spain, a bright triangle of zodiacal light   
      appeared in the distance soon after sunset. Captured on June 21, 2019,   
      the scene includes bright Regulus, the alpha star of the constellation   
      Leo, standing above center toward the left. The Beehive Star Cluster   
      (M44) can be spotted below center, closer to the horizon and also   
      immersed in the zodiacal glow.   
      
                        Tomorrow's picture: near to the Sun   
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