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what's up 4 sep tember red star meets

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red planet and the zodiacal light points

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towards Jupiter hello and welcome I'm

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Jane Houston Jones from NASA's Jet

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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena

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California as Mars moves towards its

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encounter with comet siding spring next

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month the red planet passes several

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bright stars on September 12th Mars is

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halfway between Saturn and Antares the

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brilliant red giant star in the

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constellation scorpius compared the red

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hues of Mars and antaris with your own

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eyes by September 27th the to appear

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about three degrees apart low in the

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Southwest sky after sunset like last

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month the moon skips through the sky

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appearing to the lower right of Saturn

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on the 27th between Mars and Saturn on

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the twenty-eighth and above Mars on the

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29th forming a straight line with

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Antares meanwhile in the morning sky

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Jupiter Rises higher use the moon to

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find it on the morning of September 20th

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you can also use Jupiter to look for a

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huge pyramid of light appearing one to

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two hours before sunrise the pyramid

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called the zodiacal light is sometimes

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confused with the Milky Way and

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sometimes called the false dawn it can

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even look like faint city lights if

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you're driving east before sunrise the

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zodiacal light is best seen from

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mid-september to early October it's the

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reflection of sunlight off cosmic dust

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particles the debris from Comet and

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asteroid collisions in our solar system

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some of these dust particles enter

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Earth's atmosphere as sporadic or random

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meteors but most of the dust particles

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producing the zodiacal light settle into

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a lens or pancake shaped tapering cone

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of light fattest near the Sun and

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extending all the way out to Jupiter's

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orbit most of the material is located

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near the plane of the solar system the

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ecliptic the flat disk were the planets

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orbit the zodiacal light is seen along

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the narrow pathway of this flat plane

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when you look at the eastern horizon

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before dawn and autumn the ecliptic is

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nearly vertical in the sky you can learn

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about how NASA studies interstellar and

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solar system dust particles and all of