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Scientists Find Presolar Stardust in Samples from Asteroid Bennu


Researchers have detected an unexpectedly high abundance of presolar grains -- dust from stellar explosions predating our Solar System -- in the samples of the near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-Rex spacecraft.

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