Gold Orbit

Zodiacal light is a faint triangular glow that rises from the horizon before dawn or after dusk when the Sun is 12–18° below the horizon. It is not the Sun itself. It is sunlight scattered by a vast cloud of microscopic dust particles orbiting in the plane of the solar system. Interplanetary dust — remnants of comets and asteroid collisions — fills the inner solar system. When sunlight strikes this dust, it scatters forward along the ecliptic plane.