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...
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The interplanetary dust cloud, or zodiacal cloud (as the source of the zodiacal light), consists of cosmic dust (small particles floating in outer space)...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard...
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Stardust (redirect from Star Dust (song))
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...
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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...
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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...
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Intergalactic dust is cosmic dust in between galaxies in intergalactic space. Evidence for intergalactic dust has been suggested as early as 1949, and...
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Dust astronomy is a subfield of astronomy that uses the information contained in individual cosmic dust particles ranging from their dynamical state to...
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Cosmic rays or astroparticles are high-energy particles or clusters of particles (primarily represented by protons or atomic nuclei) that move through...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Ring system (redirect from Dust ring)
orbiting an astronomical object that is composed of solid material such as gas, dust, meteoroids, planetoids or moonlets and stellar objects. Ring systems are...
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Micrometeoroid (category Cosmic dust)
149–160. Bibcode:1977LPI.....8..145B. Hans Pettersson, "Cosmic Spherules and Meteoritic Dust." Scientific American, Volume 202 Issue 2 (February 1960)...
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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...
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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...
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Molecular cloud (category Cosmic dust)
structure. The structure itself is generally irregular and filamentary. Cosmic dust and ultraviolet radiation emitted by stars are key factors that determine...
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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...
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range (~submillimeter). They are a subset of cosmic dust, which also includes the smaller interplanetary dust particles (IDPs). Micrometeorites enter Earth's...
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Solar System (section Meteoroids, meteors and dust)
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...
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Extraterrestrial life (section Cosmic pluralism)
within asteroids and comets. In October 2011, scientists reported that cosmic dust contains complex organic compounds ("amorphous organic solids with a...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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interstellar dust grains, which have collected from non-gaseous elements in the interstellar medium, as one type of composite cosmic dust ("stardust")...
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Interstellar travel (redirect from Cosmic voyages)
standards of energy development. Moreover, collisions by spacecraft with cosmic dust and gas at such speeds would be very dangerous for both passengers and...
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