Sentences with phrase «stardust grain»
An electron microscope image of a micron - sized supernova silicon carbide, SiC, stardust grain (lower right) extracted from a primitive meteorite.
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Some meteorites have been known for decades to contain a record of the original building blocks of the Solar System, including stardust grains that formed in prior generations of stars.
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«Because these presolar grains are literally stardust that can be studied in detail in the laboratory,» explained Nittler, «they are excellent probes of a range of astrophysical processes.»
Microscopic particles of stardust, known as «pre-solar grains,» have been found in meteoritic material on Earth.