Cosmic dust – also called extraterrestrial dust, space dust, or star dust – is dust that occurs in outer space or has fallen onto Earth. Most cosmic dust...

The interplanetary dust cloud, or zodiacal cloud (as the source of the zodiacal light), consists of cosmic dust (small particles floating in outer space)...

career in 1990 as the lead guitarist of the instrumental jazz ensemble Cosmic Dust, with which he released one studio album. His second band, Citizen Swing...

or sealant to vulnerable edges and joins. Cosmic dust is widely present in outer space, where gas and dust clouds are the primary precursors for planetary...

The Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) on the Cassini mission is a large-area (0.1 m2 total sensitive area) multi-sensor dust instrument that includes a chemical...

to collect dust bunnies and other material. Dust bunnies have been used as an analogy for the accretion of cosmic matter in planetoids. Dust corner "Scientists...

The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard...

in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Stardust may refer to: A type of cosmic dust, composed of particles in space “Stardust” (1927 song), by Hoagy Carmichael...

Look up cosmic dust in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Space dust may refer to: Cosmic dust, particles floating in space Space debris, or human-made objects...

commonly the Dark River) is a dark band caused by interstellar clouds of cosmic dust that significantly obscure (extinguish) the center and most radial sectors...

Intergalactic dust is cosmic dust in between galaxies in intergalactic space. Evidence for intergalactic dust has been suggested as early as 1949, and...

Dust astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that uses the information contained in individual cosmic dust particles ranging from their dynamical state to...

Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through...

which can consist of ionized, neutral, or molecular hydrogen and also cosmic dust. Nebulae are often star-forming regions, such as in the Pillars of Creation...

because those radio waves can penetrate the large clouds of interstellar cosmic dust that are opaque to visible light. The existence of this line was predicted...

distributing nuclear bombs throughout the outer solar system in order to create cosmic dust that will help detect, but not prevent, the arrival of the main Trisolaran...

orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as gas, dust, meteoroids, planetoids or moonlets and stellar objects. Ring systems are...

149–160. Bibcode:1977LPI.....8..145B. Hans Pettersson, "Cosmic Spherules and Meteoritic Dust." Scientific American, Volume 202 Issue 2 (February 1960)...

System, by the process of cosmic ray spallation on interstellar gas and dust. This explains their higher abundance in cosmic dust as compared with their...

used in modern cosmic dust detectors like the Galileo Dust Detector and dust analyzers Cassini CDA, Stardust CIDA and the Surface Dust Analyser for the...

structure. The structure itself is generally irregular and filamentary. Cosmic dust and ultraviolet radiation emitted by stars are key factors that determine...

now on Earth that originated in outer space. Such materials include cosmic dust and meteorites, as well as samples brought to Earth by sample return...

range (~submillimeter). They are a subset of cosmic dust, which also includes the smaller interplanetary dust particles (IDPs). Micrometeorites enter Earth's...

origin is materials from planet Mars. The outer Solar System hosts a cosmic dust cloud. It extends from about 10 AU to about 40 AU, and was probably created...

within asteroids and comets. In October 2011, scientists reported that cosmic dust contains complex organic compounds ("amorphous organic solids with a...

capture cosmic dust, also known as space dust. NASA used an aerogel to trap space dust particles aboard the Stardust spacecraft. These aerogel dust collectors...

1086/142713. "Sifting through Dust near Orion's Belt". ESO Press Release. Retrieved 2 May 2012. James B. Kaler (1997). Cosmic Clouds -- Birth, Death, and...

to measure the very low energy charged particle flux from the Sun. A cosmic dust detector, mounted on the body with microphone plate approximately perpendicular...

interstellar dust grains, which have collected from non-gaseous elements in the interstellar medium, as one type of composite cosmic dust ("stardust")...

standards of energy development. Moreover, collisions by spacecraft with cosmic dust and gas at such speeds would be very dangerous for both passengers and...