Even though they account for only about 1% of the mass of a typical interstellar cloud, interstellar dust grains play a crucial role in the creation of this rich variety of molecules and in the process of star formation.

BBC: University of Nottingham

The visible light from it was bright enough for George Djorgovski, Mark Metzger and Shri Kulkarni of the California Institute of Technology and their colleagues to analyse, and to demonstrate that it had travelled through a cloud of interstellar gas at least 10 billion light-years from the earth.

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