Interstellar dust

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interstellar dust

(Also called cosmic dust.) Small, solid particles in the supposedly empty space between stars.

Dark blotches in the Milky Way are not due to the absence of stars but rather to attenuation of starlight by interstellar dust.
Compare interplanetary dust.


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