How to Use zodiacal light in a Sentence

zodiacal light

noun

• Around our own Sun, this dust causes the zodiacal light that can be seen on very dark nights near the horizon.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Oct. 2017
• For a second and last week, observers in the Northern Hemisphere can catch the elusive glow of the zodiacal lights.
  — National Geographic, 6 Sep. 2016
• For about two weeks, observers in the Northern Hemisphere will have their best chance to see an ethereal display called the zodiacal lights thanks to a nearly moonless sky in the predawn hours.
  — National Geographic, 1 Oct. 2017
• Even moonlight might brighten the sky enough to make the zodiacal light invisible.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• The zodiacal light might be one of the most underrated cosmic sights visible from Earth.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Starting on this day and lasting for the next two weeks, observers in the Northern Hemisphere will have their best chance to see an ethereal display called the zodiacal lights, thanks to a near-moonless sky in the predawn hours.
  — National Geographic, 1 Sep. 2017
• For astronomers who study space dust, the phenomenon, known as zodiacal light, is at the center of a startling discovery.
  — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 24 Mar. 2021
• Three other satellites included one that aims to study zodiacal light and image the Milky Way, officials said.
  — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2019
• The researchers found that asteroid collisions cannot explain zodiacal light on their own.
  — Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 12 July 2012
• Rumor has it, though, that a slight, rising crescent moon can be a miraculously beautiful addition to the zodiacal light.
  — Rebecca Coffey, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
• March 21 About an hour after sunset and for the next two weeks afterward, keen sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere can hunt down one of the most elusive astronomical phenomena—the zodiacal light.
  — Andrew Fazekas, National Geographic, 1 Mar. 2019
• Cosmic dust was known to exist in interstellar space for more than a century, supplementing the solar system dust—known from its reflected sunlight, which is observed as zodiacal light.
  — Avi Loeb, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2021
• The zodiacal lights are actually created as sunlight reflects off countless interplanetary particles scattered along the plane of the solar system.
  — National Geographic, 4 Apr. 2016

Last Updated: 7 Feb 2025