Astronaut of the National Aeronautics and Research of the United States (NASA) Donald Petit, the Mleteen Way, STARLINK satellites and a false dawn in one picture. An American astronaut shared a picture on the social network x.
It captures the Earth, the Milky Way, the zodiac light, which is called the “false dawn”, the satellites of Starlink in the form of stripes and a star in the form of points. Petit noted that he took a picture two days earlier from the porthole Dragon Crew 9.
The famous astrophotograph Andrew McCarthy wrote in X that this is probably “the best photo ever taken from the ISS.”
Zodiac light, a weak radiance extending along the ecliptic (i.e., in the zodiac area), occurs due to the scattering of sunlight with dust particles concentrating in the plane of the solar system.