Suspected dust ring in Venus's orbit confirmed

Friday, November 22, 2013 - 10:00 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers from The Open University and the University of Central Lancashire in the U.K., has confirmed that a ring of dust surrounds the sun in the orbit of Venus. In their paper published in the journal Science, the team describes how they used data from NASA's twin STEREO probes to confirm the existence of the dust ring.

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