10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion
Wednesday, April 30, 2008 - 13:49
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded future generations of stars and planets -- was forged in the explosions of massive stars.
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