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Ep. 677: The Answer is Always Dust

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The Mystery of Dust in Astronomy

There's always going to be people who are like, the reason that they type 2A, supernova, look the way they do is because there's dust. And if you find something really, really cool, there's going to be the crumogen who's trying to disprove that you actually found something cool. It just gets exhausting. There was this little tiny, tiny hope, tiny microscopic to small to be called dust hope that maybe it was a Dyson ring. But we didn't actually explain what tabby star is at all. The great attractor has now been mapped. Done, problem solved.

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