Interstellar dust revealed by light from cosmic dawn
Astrophysics of Galaxies
2025-02-13 v1
Abstract
The obscuration of light from a distant galaxy has raised the possibility that a type of carbon dust existed in the earliest epochs of the Universe -- challenging the idea that stars had not yet evolved enough to make such material.
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@article{arxiv.2502.08111,
title = {Interstellar dust revealed by light from cosmic dawn},
author = {Xuejuan Yang and Aigen Li},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.08111},
year = {2025}
}
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3 pages, 1 figure; invited News & Views article published in Nature, vol. 621, pp. 260-262 (2023)