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Stardust@Home is a Time Waster with real astronomical significance

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to search for interstellar dust particles. They're the tiny particles that measure only a few microns (one millionth of a meter) in diameter and hail from distant stars that are now floating in space. They are the only matter from other stars that reaches our solar system. Impressive huh? If you are successful in locating one of the particles (in ...