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Riegel_Haribo t1_izhjt1x wrote

"Hubble detects", and then a barrage of snarky comments. Jeez. Science, folks.

This is an effort to characterize the zodiacal light, the solar system's illuminated dust, along with the galactic background and any light in darkest areas, by a massive reprocessing of raw data from Hubble, which is just underway. Especially challenging because these observations are on different instruments, have different exposures, cosmic ray flux, electronic noise, and changing parameters. This might lead to a new backgrounding method for historic observations.

...which can be photographed from Earth and is not a shocking discovery:

https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/w6kfza/all_of_the_zodiacal_light_the_dust_of_our_solar/

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Wordymanjenson t1_izhy92u wrote

They mentioned that this wasn’t zodiacal light. Maybe I misunderstood but part of what they subtracted was the light from this and the end result was a glow that’s not coming from something we know to subtract.

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everyusernamestaken3 t1_iziutl7 wrote

From the article (4th sentence):

>This would be any leftover light after subtracting the glow from planets, stars, galaxies, and from dust in the plane of our solar system (called zodiacal light).

Pretty sure you understood it just fine, and this guy didn't click the article.

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Riegel_Haribo t1_izkrtd4 wrote

Pretty sure to find out what remains after subtracting zodiacal light, one has to fully characterize its appearance in the telescope...

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asdaaaaaaaa t1_iziof4m wrote

> This is an effort to characterize the zodiacal light, the solar system's illuminated dust, along with the galactic background and any light in darkest areas, by a massive reprocessing of raw data from Hubble, which is just underway.

Was my first guess, random small stuff like dust, ice, possibly some gas molecules reflecting light as they orbit/hang out around the solar system. I do wonder how much of an improvement we'd have visually if we could somehow drag JWST or something like it beyond that dust/debris cloud into the bare, emptier space.

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AdolescenceOfP1 t1_izlbcsj wrote

> "Hubble detects", and then a barrage of snarky comments. Jeez. Science, folks.

It looks like the children on reddit rush to r/science to compete with each other with absurd jokes. The moderators are going to be very busy tonight. :-/

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