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cosmic dust
(redirected from Interstellar dust)

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cosmic dust [′käz·mik ′dəst]
(astronomy)
Fine particles of solid matter forming clouds in interstellar space.


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The Stardust capsule collected samples of interstellar dust using the back of the comet-dust collector.
6-billion-kilometer journey, a space capsule carrying comet and interstellar dust landed in the Utah desert on Jan.
The theory is that in this motion the Earth occasionally moves through clouds of interstellar dust cooling its surface, and that this is the cause of our periodic ice ages.
 
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