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NASA's Stardust mission may have recovered first interstellar particles

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The largest interstellar dust track found in the Stardust aerogel collector (Image: UC Ber...


Good things come in microscopic packages – at least, so says NASA. According to the space agency, our first ambassadors from interstellar space may be seven particles measuring only about two microns, that were returned to Earth by the unmanned Stardust probe in 2006. They could provide new insights into the origin and evolution of interstellar dust. .. Continue Reading NASA's Stardust mission may have recovered first interstellar particles



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