Kordylewski cloud

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The Kordylewski clouds, sometimes called the lunar libration clouds, are sparse clouds of cosmic dust that trail ahead and behind the Moon. They sit at the L4 and L5 Lagrange points, two theoretically stable regions of space in the Earth–Moon system.

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