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    Sifting through dust near Orion's Belt

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    Post  Carol Thu May 03, 2012 11:03 pm

    Dust may sound boring and uninteresting - the surface grime that hides the beauty of an object. But this new image of Messier 78 and surroundings, which reveals the submillimetre-wavelength radiation from dust grains in space, shows that dust can be dazzling. Dust is important to astronomers as dense clouds of gas and dust are the birthplaces of new stars. read more at link


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