Insight Into: Cosmic Dust
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Where does cosmic dust come from?
Starbirth Planet Formation: Video Segments
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At a Glance: Seeing the Invisible—Using Infrared to See Dust
01:55
Myth vs Reality: Seeing with Webb vs Seeing with Hubble
00:40
Above and Beyond: 30 Doradus
00:41
Myth vs Reality: Empty Space
00:40
Celestial Tour: Star Birth and Planet Formation
05:31
Above and Beyond: V838 Monocerotis
00:47
Insight Into: Cosmic Dust
01:36
Credits
Star and Planet Formation
Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.
All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA, ESA, and STScI except:
· Taurus constellation drawing from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia by Johannes Hevelius, courtesy of the United States Naval Observatory
· Andromeda Galaxy visible-light image courtesy of NOAO/AURA/NSF
· Rocket launch image ©2008 ESA-CNES-Arianespace/Photo by Optique Video CSG
· Sunrise image copyright Jamie Lee – Fotolia.com
· Barnard 68 images courtesy of ESO
Written by Tracy Vogel
Designed by Marc Lussier
Music courtesy of Associated Production Music
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Galaxy of white, brown, and red
Galaxy of white, brown, and red
The universe is full of dust
stars and dust swirl, forming a spiral galaxy
We see regions and lanes of dust within galaxies.
Clouds of dust collapse and condense to form stars and planets.
stars float among clouds
It even drifts in the spaces between galaxies.
But where does dust come from?
Cosmic dust comes from stars.
Stars spew dust as they grow older.
And when massive stars explode, they can give off huge amounts of dust.
This supernova, SN 1987A, was observed giving off enough dust to build 160,000 to 230,000 Earths.