With the Interstellar Dust Experiment, scientists hope to learn more about the materials that compose our solar system and beyond.
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A team of researchers from the University of Colorado Boulder is gathering at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida this morning for a planned launch of their IDEX space device.
The IDEX, short for Interstellar Dust Experiment, was built to collect stardust, which is composed of rare particles that continuously enter our solar system from the greater Milky Way Galaxy — often travelling in one direction, like a current.
