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Ep. 677: The Answer is Always Dust

Astronomy Cast

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The Purpose of Dust

Thanks to modern infrared astronomy, astronomers have a way to see through the dust. Dust basically blocks our view, conducts how everything should move and is luckily susceptible to millimeter wavelength radiation. And so dust does have a purpose,. I think it definitely has a purpose, but I also think thanks to modern infrared Astronomy we can look at things with different wavelengths of light.

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