Kordylewski cloud

Kordylewski clouds, also named ghost moons, are concentrations of dust that exist at the L₄ and L₅ Lagrangian points of the Earth–Moon system. They were first reported by Polish astronomer Kazimierz Kordylewski in the 1960s, and confirmed to exist by the Royal Astronomical Society in October 2018.

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