Unlike light waves, radio waves are not blocked by the dust clouds.
The birth and death phases of stars, for example, are associated with heavy dust clouds that give off an infra-red signal which might resemble the swarm of artificial satellites constituting a Dyson sphere.
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This year the students had to program their SPHERES to deploy dust clouds that could remove space junk from orbit, dock with another satellite to harvest its parts, and maneuver through an unknown field full of debris.
People in panic and fear racing from the scene in clouds of dust and smoke.
The clouds of dust have spread across a wide area, causing flights to several Caribbean destinations to be cancelled.
Large-scale structures are also visible, such as large clouds of dust and gas where stars are forming at rapid rates.
Neighbors said they stepped outside and saw only clouds of dust and piles of debris where the house stood moments earlier.
Sitting in open backs of pick-up trucks, they have scarves pulled up over their faces against the clouds of dust whipping around them.
Vast open-pit mines that spew clouds of dust into the air scar a landscape that locals say was largely pristine only a few years ago.
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Traffic was also an issue for Sebastian Vettel, the German finishing only 16th fastest and being fortunate not to damage his car after running wide and throwing up clouds of dust at Turn 11.
Getting there involves a heady mix of chicken buses and trucks (all under the watchful companionship of Rivera), but as the ridges of the mountains start to emerge from behind the clouds of dust, and then emerge some more, it is clear this is a special place.
What is new about Dr Cinzano's research, which is about to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, is that he and his colleagues have managed to take account of the effects of back-scattering by clouds and dust in the atmosphere, as well as the effects of the original sources of the light themselves.
Here outside the city limits cars speed by clouds of red dust in their wake.
It will study the clouds of gas and dust that go into making stars and planets.
It is obscured by vast clouds of gas and dust in the constellation of Sagittarius.
This technology has allowed Herschel to study the processes at play as large clouds of gas and dust collapse to form new stars.
Stars are the result of the gravitational collapse of huge clouds of gas and dust, whereas planets are thought to evolve by the accretion of the material left over from such collapses, which forms a rotating disc around the newly created star.
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