What Kind of Cosmic Dust Did the Stardust Spacecraft Bring Back to Earth? (5 of 11) (IMAGE)

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What Kind of Cosmic Dust Did the Stardust Spacecraft Bring Back to Earth? (5 of 11)

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This Optical Microscope image shows Orion only shortly after it was removed from the collector. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 August, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Andrew J. Westphal at the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, CA, and colleagues was titled, 'False color image of diffraction pattern from Orion.'

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[Credit: NASA/JSC/(D. Frank)]

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