... The Stardust investigation team has enlisted amateur astronomers to hunt for interstellar dust in the microscopic images taken from the Stardust comet-hunter aero gel collector. ...
... Interestingly, Phaethon has never been caught exhibiting a coma or dust trail, and its spectra looks like an asteroid, but its orbit is that of a comet. ...
... Movement of interstellar dust, nova and white dwarfs, luminous accretion disks of black holes, binary stars orbits, are a few of the astrophysical processes available for study with data from the digitized plates. ...
... Optically, we replaced the field mirror (and we have a backup mirror); the optical surfaces have been examined for dust or deterioration and were found clean; and a minor baffling problem was fixed. ...
... Dust creates 30th magnitude extinction in the visible spectrum so he showed the group infrared views of the central area of the Milky Way in the Sagittarius A region. ...
... the image on the glass plate was made could subtract several magnitudes, and also could create a moving spot - a ghost image; dust from smoking cigarettes near the plates made stars where they did not exist; backs of plates have ink notations, sometimes ...