... in the lunar soil as part of an experiment to study the nature of lunar dust and the effects of pressure on the surface ... The dust was found to compact easily under the weight of the astronauts leaving a shallow but clear impression of the boots ...
... Dust Content of Virgo Star-Forming Dwarf Galaxies M. Grossi, L.K. Hunt, S. Madden, C ... T < 20 K, implying dust masses around 105 M and dust-to-gas ratios (D) within the ...
... WFPC2 highlights the jet emerging from the system, while NICMOS penetrates some of the dust near the star to more clearly outline the 50-billion-mile-long dust lane (the horizontal dark band, which indicates the presence of a large disk forming around the ...
... the cosmos this magnificent interstellar dust cloud, sculpted by stellar winds and ... immense complex of star forming gas and dust surrounding the Orion Nebula some 1,500 ...
... Study of FIR/submm emission in galaxies to determine the relative distribution of dust and stars, the amount of internal extinction, the dust mass and the relation between IR radiation and star formation in objects of different morphological types. ...
... bulge is a central, football-shaped structure composed of stars, gas, and dust ... characterized by a lane of stars, gas, and dust slashing across a galaxy's central ...
... picture, because the star is hidden at the galactic center, behind obscuring dust ... NICMOS' infrared vision penetrated the dust to reveal the star, which is glowing ...
... They are blasted away from a disk of gas and dust falling onto an embryonic star. [upper left] - This view of a protostellar object called HH-30 reveals an edge-on disk of dust encircling a newly forming star. ...