NASA's new PUNCH spacecraft captured colorful images of the zodiacal light while testing out its sun-watching instruments.

This lovely luminescence is known as the "zodiacal light," which is a diffuse glow created by dust particles orbiting the sun reflecting sunlight toward Earth. If you look closely at the stars ...

The view here has been specifically filtered to bring out those background stars, which are otherwise blotted out by the bright zodiacal light generated by sunlight glinting off dust particles in ...

The soft diffuse glow is “zodiacal light,” glinting off microscopic dust particles orbiting the Sun.

there can't be any interference like background stars or zodiacal light. On April 14, PUNCH opened the doors of two instruments, collecting this first-light image and demonstrating the cameras are ...

The image is colorized to show the polarization (or angle) of the zodiacal light, a faint glow from dust orbiting the sun. . | Credit: NASA/SwRI NASA's newest spacecraft aimed at studying the sun ...