 This plot of data captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals dust entrained in the winds rushing away from a quasar.
The strongest features are from the mineral amorphous olivine, or glass (purple); the mineral forsterite found in sand (blue); and the mineral corundum found in rubies (light blue).
We may be more than what Carl Sagan said (stardust); we may also be 'quasardust'.
Read more in this NASA news release.
Jorrie
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"Curiosity has its own reason for existence" -- Albert Einstein
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Dusty Quasar Winds
