My professor mentioned it in the observational astronomy class I took in college. For anyone wondering, zodiacal dust is the stuff left over from the protoplanetary disc that didn’t become a planet. Any observations made along the plane of the solar system is looking through that dust and astronomers need to account for it in various ways.
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protist@mander.xyz 7 months ago
May’s actual thesis was called “A Survey of Radial Velocities in the Zodiacal Dust Cloud.”
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
modifier@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Which, honestly, sounds like the name of a prog metal album so he isn’t straying far
bangsnooter@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I give KGATLW three months to drop the album
modifier@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Oh for sure this needs to be a Gizz album or a song at least