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Ageing dust fades away

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Figure 1: The Kuiper Belt of our Solar System (shown in red) harbours solid material (such as comets) in a disk extending beyond the orbit of Pluto.

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Fajardo-Acosta, S. Ageing dust fades away. Nature 401, 439–440 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/46710

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