Sunday 12 February 2023

Mercury has a weird cloud of dust following it



Image courtesy of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith.

Joel Kontinen


Mercury has secrets.  It appears to share its orbit with a huge ring of dust millions of kilometres thick, and scientists aren’t sure how it got there.

The solar system is created, and we would not catch anything like it anywhere,

Researchers can not explain why the  sun’s gravity almost did not immediately pull in the debris.  

Source: 

Crane,  Leah, 2023.Weird dust ring orbits the sun alongside Mercury and we don't know why New Scietist8 February