Astronomers have constructed the first detailed 3D map of the properties of cosmic dust in our home galaxy. For their map, the astronomers used 130 million spectra from ESA's Gaia mission, results ...
Retrieving dust information from 130 million spectra This is the kind of information used by Xiangyu Zhang, a Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), and Gregory Green, an ...
Consider that the Earth is just a giant cosmic dust bunny -- a big bundle of debris amassed from exploded stars. We Earthlings are essentially just little clumps of stardust, too, albeit with very ...
3D map of dust in galaxy. Credit: arXiv (2023). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.01295 If you explore the night sky it won't be long before you realize there is a lot of dust and gas up there. The ...
Map of the study area in the southwestern United States. Dust collectors are marked by stars corresponding to their position. The background image is an atmospheric footprint map derived from ...