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  2. Cosmic dust - Wikipedia

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    Cosmic dust is made of dust grains and aggregates into dust particles. These particles are irregularly shaped, with porosity ranging from fluffy to compact . The composition, size, and other properties depend on where the dust is found, and conversely, a compositional analysis of a dust particle can reveal much about the dust particle's origin.

  3. Scientists find new kind of stardust - AOL

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    Finding ‘dust factories’ could help us learn where our Earth came from

  4. Nucleosynthesis - Wikipedia

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    Many modern proofs of stellar nucleosynthesis are provided by the isotopic compositions of stardust, solid grains that have condensed from the gases of individual stars and which have been extracted from meteorites. Stardust is one component of cosmic dust and is frequently called presolar grains. The measured isotopic compositions in stardust ...

  5. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Daimon Hellstrom's trident is made of this metal, which channels magical energy and gives him the power to fly and shoot soulfire. Netheranium also has the power to harm Satan himself. Netherite Minecraft: An ancient fireproof alloy made from gold and netherite scraps, which are smelted from ancient debris found in the game's hellish Nether ...

  6. Presolar grains - Wikipedia

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    Boeing Delta II rocket carrying the Stardust spacecraft waiting for launch. Stardust had a close encounter with the comet Wild 2 in January 2004 and also collected interstellar dust containing pre-solar interstellar grains. Presolar grains are interstellar solid matter in the form of tiny solid grains that originated at a time before the Sun ...

  7. Giant bubbles on the surface of a nearby star preview the ...

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    Astronomers were able to capture detailed observations of massive gas bubbles moving on the surface of a star, named R. Doradus, located 180 light-years away.

  8. We Are All Made of Stars - Wikipedia

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    "We Are All Made of Stars" was written by Moby in New York after the September 11 attacks to express a sense of hopefulness. [1] Moby has stated that the song was inspired by the song "Flowers" from the album Today by American alternative rock band Galaxie 500, [citation needed] as well as quantum physics in that "On a basic quantum level, all the matter in the universe is essentially made up ...

  9. Stardust (spacecraft) - Wikipedia

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    Stardust was a 385-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on 7 February 1999. Its primary mission was to collect dust samples from the coma of comet Wild 2 , as well as samples of cosmic dust , and return them to Earth for analysis.