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A $1.5 million grant gives UH researchers the tools to analyze bits of cosmic dust The University of Hawaii is developing one of the world's most advanced laboratories to study the origin of the solar system. "The university is trying to build the premier centre in the world for stu...

The formation of molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a process of fundamental importance Recent experimental results about the formation of molecular hydrogen on astrophysically relevant surfaces under conditions close to those encountered in the interstellar...

Title: Evidence for dust accumulation just outside the orbit of Venus Authors: Ch. Leinert, B. Moster To contribute to the knowledge of dynamics of interplanetary dust we are searching for structures in the spatial distribution of interplanetary dust near the orbit of Venus. To this end we study t...

The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of blac...

'Pillars of Creation' Formed in the Shadows Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous "Pillars of Creation" take shape. The pillars are dense columns within giant cloud...

NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from c...

The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the star than originally thought. "These first definitive measurements of planet-forming zones offer important c...

The Local Interstellar Cloud, casually called the Local Fluff, is the interstellar cloud (roughly 30 light years across) through which the Solar System is currently moving. The Solar System entered the Local Interstellar Cloud at some time between 44,000 and 150,000 years ago and is expected to r...

Title: Cometary Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and Carbonaceous Micrometeorites Authors: David Nesvorny, Peter Jenniskens, Harold F. Levison, William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky (Version v2) The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid colli...

Title: Composition and accretion rate of fossil micrometeorites recovered in Middle Triassic deep-sea deposits Authors: Tetsuji Onoue, Tomoki Nakamura, Takeshi Haranosono and Chika Yasuda Micrometeorites, which are submillimetre-sized extraterrestrial particles that survive atmosph...

Title: Implications of the SPEAR FUV Maps on Our Understanding of the ISM Authors: Eric J. Korpela (1), Martin Sirk (1), Jerry Edelstein (1), Kwangil Seon (2), Kyoung-Wook Min (3), Wonyong Han (2) ((1) Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California (2) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Inst...

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Dust Cosmic Dust Centre (Preview)	General news	5	6375	Oct 21 13:04 2009 by Blobrana
A $1.5 million grant gives UH researchers the tools to analyze bits of cosmic dust The University of Hawaii is developing one of the world's most advanced laboratories to study the origin of the solar system. "The university is trying to build the premier centre in the world for stu...
Dust Hydrogen Bumpy space dust (Preview)	Cosmology News	4	4948	May 7 21:54 2014 by Blobrana
The formation of molecular hydrogen in the interstellar medium (ISM) is a process of fundamental importance Recent experimental results about the formation of molecular hydrogen on astrophysically relevant surfaces under conditions close to those encountered in the interstellar...
Solar System Dust Interplanetary dust ( 1 2 ) (Preview)	Solar System	13	11657	Mar 2 19:32 2017 by Blobrana
Title: Evidence for dust accumulation just outside the orbit of Venus Authors: Ch. Leinert, B. Moster To contribute to the knowledge of dynamics of interplanetary dust we are searching for structures in the spatial distribution of interplanetary dust near the orbit of Venus. To this end we study t...
Dust Dust ( 1 2 3 ) (Preview)	Cosmology News	27	12328	Mar 22 21:19 2017 by Blobrana
The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that space dust -- the same stuff that makes up living creatures and planets -- was manufactured in large quantities in the winds of blac...
Dust Giant clouds of dust (Preview)	Cosmology News	3	3268	Sep 23 21:17 2010 by Blobrana
'Pillars of Creation' Formed in the Shadows Research by astronomers at the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies suggests that shadows hold the key to how giant star-forming structures like the famous "Pillars of Creation" take shape. The pillars are dense columns within giant cloud...
Dust Brownleeite (Preview)	Meteorite News	0	1807	Jun 12 23:25 2008 by Blobrana
NASA researchers and scientists from the United States, Germany and Japan have found a new mineral in material that likely came from a comet. The mineral, a manganese silicide named Brownleeite, was discovered within an interplanetary dust particle, or IDP, that appears to have originated from c...
Dust Planet-forming zones (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	0	2034	May 23 18:54 2005 by Blobrana
The most detailed measurements to date of the dusty disks around young stars confirm a new theory that the region where rocky planets such as Earth form is much farther away from the star than originally thought. "These first definitive measurements of planet-forming zones offer important c...
Dust Local Interstellar Cloud (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	5	7869	Sep 6 02:42 2013 by Blobrana
The Local Interstellar Cloud, casually called the Local Fluff, is the interstellar cloud (roughly 30 light years across) through which the Solar System is currently moving. The Solar System entered the Local Interstellar Cloud at some time between 44,000 and 150,000 years ago and is expected to r...
Dust Carbonaceous Micrometeorites (Preview)	Meteorite News	1	2508	Mar 11 21:34 2010 by Blobrana
Title: Cometary Origin of the Zodiacal Cloud and Carbonaceous Micrometeorites Authors: David Nesvorny, Peter Jenniskens, Harold F. Levison, William F. Bottke, David Vokrouhlicky (Version v2) The zodiacal cloud is a thick circumsolar disk of small debris particles produced by asteroid colli...
Dust Micrometeorites (Preview)	Meteorite News	4	4441	Sep 15 14:56 2011 by Blobrana
Title: Composition and accretion rate of fossil micrometeorites recovered in Middle Triassic deep-sea deposits Authors: Tetsuji Onoue, Tomoki Nakamura, Takeshi Haranosono and Chika Yasuda Micrometeorites, which are submillimetre-sized extraterrestrial particles that survive atmosph...
Dust Interstellar medium (Preview)	Stars/galaxy News	6	4520	Oct 31 20:02 2012 by Blobrana
Title: Implications of the SPEAR FUV Maps on Our Understanding of the ISM Authors: Eric J. Korpela (1), Martin Sirk (1), Jerry Edelstein (1), Kwangil Seon (2), Kyoung-Wook Min (3), Wonyong Han (2) ((1) Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California (2) Korea Astronomy and Space Science Inst...