1. So under an endless rain of cosmic dust, the air is full of pollen, micro-diamonds and jewels from other planets and supernova explosions.

2. They are also the most common class of carbon molecule in meteorites and in cometary and Asteroidal dust (cosmic dust). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 …

3. Within the context of the 'Spectroscopy of cosmic dust analogs: Study of the interaction with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons' (PAHCNP) project, scientists simulated chemical processes that occur in astrophysical environments.

4. Upsurging reducing hot gases from the ‘nuée ardente’ would polymerize part of the dispersed organic matter as the insoluble brown amorphous matrix, possibly the ‘sticking’ agent when the cosmic dust accreted.

5. Collections curated at the NASA Astromaterials Acquisitions and Curation Department include Antarctic Meteorites, Moon Rocks from the Apollo missions, Cometary, Interstellar, and Stratospheric, or Cosmic, dust particles, Solar Wind particles, and samples of space-exposed hardware from mission spacecraft