One of Earth’s shimmering dust clouds has been spotted at last
It’s taken more than five decades for astronomers to confirm the clouds exist
![a dust satellite](https://i0.wp.com/www.sciencenews.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/110619_lg_space-clouds_feat.jpg?fit=860%2C460&ssl=1)
NOW YOU SEE IT By using a special filter on a telescope, Hungarian astronomers have finally spotted evidence of one of Earth’s elusive dust satellites. The cloud (bright red) is located in a gravitational dead zone (L5) near the moon.
J. Slíz-Balogh