How to Use cosmic dust in a Sentence

cosmic dust

noun
  • So where does cosmic dust come from?
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • These black holes feed on large volumes of cosmic dust and gas.
    — Bloomberg.com, 16 Feb. 2022
  • The culprit, of course, is cosmic dust.
    — Ethan Siegel, Big Think, 12 Sep. 2025
  • The camera can also see through cosmic dust, which tends to hide young stars.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • The team used substrates as a stand-in for cosmic dust particles.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 15 Feb. 2022
  • But cosmic dust across the universe swirls together with gas to form stars, planets and the very building blocks of life.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Most cosmic dust exhibits random atomic structures, and appears like soot.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • And—as in that Milky Way example—that cosmic dust absorbs the light of stars behind it.
    — Christopher Intagliata, Scientific American, 8 Dec. 2021
  • But, instead, the galaxy is hidden by the thick cosmic dust of the Milky Way’s equator.
    — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 30 May 2022
  • Thanos does that early in Endgame, but the Stones remain dispersed in the universe as cosmic dust.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Even after Thanos destroyed them in Endgame, the Stones still exist as cosmic dust.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 16 July 2021
  • Scientists tried to look beyond large clouds of cosmic dust, treated more like obstacles than subjects of study in their own right.
    — Popular Science, 19 July 2023
  • But either way, its final fate remains the same, written in the stars and planets yet to form from its generous gift of cosmic dust.
    — Allison Parshall, Scientific American, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Somewhere in the cosmic dust of the internet, there’s a video of Fiona Apple dancing at home with her dog.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The jets occur when a star first bursts through its natal envelope of cosmic dust, shooting out a pair of opposing jets into space.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 12 July 2023
  • Astronomers also keep track of cosmic dust, tiny mineral grains that obscure the views of our optical telescopes.
    — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 26 Feb. 2015
  • But interstellar space is littered with opaque clouds of cosmic dust, tiny grains of rocky or sooty material that block our view of what lies beyond.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Within the galactic structure are prominent central dark lanes of cosmic dust.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 3 Mar. 2026
  • The artificial dust created this way is similar to cosmic dust in a pristine state right after it’s made.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
  • The next step, the researchers said, is to try changing the conditions under which the cosmic dust is made, to build up a database of different types.
    — Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
  • Astronomers have long wondered if grains of cosmic dust can form in and escape from the harsh inner regions of violent stellar systems.
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
  • What if the rings have always been exposed to an unchanging influx of cosmic dust, and the rings are 100 million years old at most?
    — Quanta Magazine, 26 Nov. 2019
  • Characterized by graceful, winding arms that spiral out from a bright central bulge, these systems are rich with both young and old stars, swirling gas and cosmic dust.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Webb’s use of the infrared light spectrum allows the telescope to see through the cosmic dust and see faraway light from the corners of the universe, scientists said.
    — Seth Borenstein, ajc, 12 July 2022
  • Every April, as winter’s grip finally loosens and the nights grow a little warmer, Earth drifts through a centuries-old cloud of cosmic dust.
    — Jake Parks, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2025
  • During the Wolf-Rayet stage, stars shed their outer layers, which encompasses them in a ring of glowing cosmic dust and gas.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
  • Webb sees the universe in infrared, the optimal wavelength for telescopes trying to see through cosmic dust and catch the light from the most distant stars and galaxies.
    — Marina Koren, The Atlantic, 12 July 2022
  • To recreate these cosmic dust collisions, a team of researchers had to first create realistic dust balls to mimic the cosmic dust that forms planets.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Discover Magazine, 22 Nov. 2018
  • But because our planet hits this cosmic dust trail at a perpendicular angle, our rendezvous with the Quadrantids will be brief.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Dec. 2019
  • Glowing gas and dust NGC 2264 contains vast clouds of hydrogen gas mixed with thick cosmic dust.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 25 Dec. 2025

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