Interstellar dust revealed by light from cosmic dawn
arXiv:2502.08111
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.
3 pages, 1 figure; invited News & Views article published in Nature, vol. 621, pp. 260-262 (2023)