Cosmic dust
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Cosmic dust can be taken to be all dust in the cosmos, as its name implies, or limited to space dust in the Solar System. It is for the most part a type of small dust particles which are a few molecules to 0.1 µm in size. A smaller fraction of all dust in space consists of larger refractory minerals that condensed as matter left the stars.
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See also
- Astrochemistry
- Dust
- Atomic and molecular astrophysics
- Cosmochemistry
- Extraterrestrial materials
- Interstellar medium
- List of interstellar and circumstellar molecules
- Micrometeoroids
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