Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust - we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
A whole new cosmic dust hunt will be on!
Above (top) is Hubble's detailed view of the dark cosmic dust cloud, released to celebrate the 11th anniversary of the workhorse orbiting observatory.
If the nucleus of an atom is big enough, its electron orbit is tens of meters. Of course, there is no such thing as the so-called cosmic dust.
Projects searching for cosmic dust or classifying galaxies clearly appeal to young cybernauts, but what of other, more mundane-sounding tasks?
Through high-power space telescopes, people can see cosmic dust clearly.
Veiled by cosmic dust, the Milky Way arches over Haleakala Crater on Maui.
Mottled pink and brown areas are a combination of the cosmic dust and reddish emission from ionized hydrogen gas.
Five flights for collecting cosmic dust have been launched with the balloon-basket system. A brief acounr of the results of study of collected dust is given as well.
First, dust particles clumped together to form cosmic dustballs. Bursts of heat from the primitive sun melted the dustballs, which solidified into chondrules.