Haley Gomez on cosmic dust
The Life Scientific
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Is the Dust in the Universe Really a Supernova?
This was really confirming the work that you'd done over the past how many years, I mean your PhD work. Here you were looking at data from this Crab Nebula, the remnants of a supernova. So, I mean, you've confirmed what you would hope to find. Why were you still doubting it? Because it was such a big number,. You know, I expected, I hope to find some dust, I didn't expect to find this much dust. If this is true and all stars explode like the Crab Nebula, then, you know, we've got loads of dust in the universe. That solves all our problems, but it is different to what the textbooks say.
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