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One standout example comes from Ronald Brecher, who spent a grand total of 38 hours imaging Andromeda in August and September earlier this year to reveal a wealth of star formation brightening spiral arms choked with cosmic dust.
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The other 80 percent, meanwhile, are simply pulverized and ground into cosmic dust within the asteroid belt.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
In this way, cosmic dust behaves as a very efficient absorber of visible light, is only lightly absorbed by near-infrared light, and is practically perfectly transparent to mid-infrared (and longer) wavelengths of light.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
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Anthony Wood, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2025
The other 80 percent, meanwhile, are simply pulverized and ground into cosmic dust within the asteroid belt.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 3 Oct. 2025
In this way, cosmic dust behaves as a very efficient absorber of visible light, is only lightly absorbed by near-infrared light, and is practically perfectly transparent to mid-infrared (and longer) wavelengths of light.
—Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
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“Cosmic dust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cosmic%20dust. Accessed 29 Oct. 2025.
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