NASA's Stardust spacecraft collecting more interstellar dust

On Aug. 5, NASA's Stardust spacecraft began its second and final round of interstellar dust collection while en route to collect samples from comet Wild 2 in 2004. Produced by stars, free-flowing interstellar dust forms the visible "Milky Way" - the hazy white band across the night sky for which our...

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