interstellar dust
Space debris grains
Interstellar dust consists of tiny solid particles scattered through the space between stars.
These microscopic grains—mostly carbon and silicates—absorb and scatter starlight, making distant stars appear dimmer and redder.
Interstellar dust also provides the raw material from which new stars and planets eventually form: The nebula's interstellar dust glowed faintly in infrared images.
- carbonaceousContaining or composed of carbon
- nebulaeInterstellar gas clouds
- nucleosynthesisAtomic core formation process
- stardustInterstellar particulate matter
- presolar grainsParticles predating our star
silicate · spectroscopy · organic molecules · ultraviolet imaging · galaxies · star formation · zodiacal · graphite · light scattering · scattered · Milky Way · plasma · accretion · galactic · clouds · reddening · particles · void
- space mattermeteor, meteoroid, meteorite, moon, asteroid
- cosmic duststardust, presolar grains
- cosmic matterstars, galaxies, dark matter, planets, asteroids
- space materialsmeteorites, moon rocks, lunar samples, stardust, space rocks
- Astrochemistrycarbon monoxide, methanol, formaldehyde, hydrogen cyanide, hydroxyl
- outer spacesun, moon, planet, star system, solar system
interstellar duststars
Luminous celestial bodies
planets · planetesimals · asteroids · celestial bodies · protoplanets
dust, dusting, duster, dusted, stellar, interstellar, intergalactic, dustlike, interspace