UW News
Don Brownlee
August 14, 2014
Stardust sample analysis finds likely interstellar dust
![An artist's conception of the Stardust spacecraft meeting the comet Wild-2.](https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/08/04181333/stardust-tile-150x150.jpg)
The Stardust mission, the brainchild of a UW astronomer, enlisted help from thousands of citizen scientists to find likely evidence of interstellar dust.