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Dust nabbed by spacecraft may be from outside the solar system

Particles collected by Stardust probe could help untangle planetary ingredients

CATCH SOME RAYS  Blasting a particle collected by the Stardust mission with X-rays creates a diffraction pattern, shown in a false color image. The pattern reveals the particle’s internal structure.

Zack Gainsforth

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

Microscopic grains of space dust captured by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft appear to have come from interstellar space.