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Dust formation in Nova Cassiopeiae 1993 seen by ultraviolet absorption

Sonneborn, G.; Hauschildt, P. H.; Shore, S. N. +2 more

The clouds of gas in interstellar space also contain grains of dust, whose properties and origins have been the focus of debate for decades. Some dust formation has been assumed to take place in novae explosions^1-5, as was first implied by the observation of a steep decrease in the amount of light emitted by the nova^1,2 DQ He…