stardust
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- noun
- /ˈstɑrdʌst/
- Literature
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polvo estelar
- Jade's eyes widened, and she handled the chunk of stardust gingerly, as if it might still be hot.
- literally made of stardust
- made of stardust
It actually arrived on Earth by way of Stardust.
- It actually arrived on Earth by way of Stardust.
- So we are not just figuratively, we are literally Stardust.
- So I can, I can poetically agree with that, but there is no way we could have known that we are Stardust without modern astrophysics telling us this.
Examples
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The sky streaked with color, turning brilliantly white, like a new sun coalescing from stardust...
Blog text (13) -
"In the legends of the People, all creatures were stars once, each formed from the same stardust.
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OK, at the end of the day, I come from Stardust, I will return to being Stardust.
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And not only that, as we are alive in this universe because we contain Stardust, the universe is alive within us.
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The Earth only existed in the form of stardust that would later congeal into the planet.
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We are stardust.
Blog text (32) -
So I can, I can poetically agree with that, but there is no way we could have known that we are Stardust without modern astrophysics telling us this.
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Our human brain, our flesh and bones, these were mosaics made up of the same elementary particles as stars, stardust, and the dark clouds hanging in the frigid wastes of interstellar space.
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Everything we know is stardust, reminding us of our connection to the universe.
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Meteorites contain tiny amounts of what is popularly known as stardust, matter originating from dying stars.
Synonyms
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Tiny pieces of rock and gas that float in space between stars
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Etymology
Stardust comes from the words star and dust, and it can mean real tiny particles from stars or a poetic idea of magic and wonder. Because the word links the tiny 'star' bits with the feeling they inspire, stardust is used for both actual star material and a sense of wonder.