cosmic dust

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The team found that times of persistent ice cover matched periods with very little cosmic dust in the sediments.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

"During the last ice age, there was almost no cosmic dust in the Arctic sediments," he said.

From Science Daily • Nov. 13, 2025

Unlike visible light, radio waves from hot gasses are not blocked that easily by cosmic dust.

From Space Scoop • Mar. 27, 2025

Most of the emitted light, for example visible light and X-ray, get blocked by thick layers of cosmic dust and can’t pass through the accretion disk around them.

From Space Scoop • Mar. 27, 2025

I did not feel myself a miserable, fortuitous atom, a grain of cosmic dust.

From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by Strachey, John St. Loe