interplanetary dust cloud

This material is known as the interplanetary dust cloud.

Our solar system has its own interplanetary dust cloud; extrasolar systems too.

His astrophysics doctoral thesis was titled The thermal emission of interplanetary dust cloud models, published by the University of Colorado in 1968.

The interplanetary dust cloud is cosmic dust (small particles floating in space) which pervades the space between planets in the Solar System and in other planetary systems.

Indeed, one of the longest-standing controversies debated in the interplanetary dust community revolves around the relative contributions to the interplanetary dust cloud from asteroid collisions and cometary activity.

Today it is understood that meteors of all sorts are leftover material from the formation of the solar system, consisting of particles from the interplanetary dust cloud or other objects made up from this material, like comets.

They hoped that an array of complex experiments made possible by the occurrence of this unusually long eclipse over the Mauna Kea observatories would afford the greatest chance in history to solve long-standing mysteries about the enigmatic heating of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the interplanetary dust clouds and the solar wind.