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SPACE.com -- Space Dust More Pervasive Than Thought

APR 20, 2009
Physics Today

SPACE.com : The vast spaces between galaxies might seem pretty empty. But they are actually littered with clouds of cosmic dust that were likely ejected from the galaxies themselves. And the dust scatters farther into intergalactic space than astronomers expected, a new study finds.

The discovery was made by watching subtle shifts in the light emanating from radio sources that sit at the hearts of far-away galaxie

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