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Borrow a little blue starlight

Follow white starlight through dust. Add grains and see scattered blue light leave the direct beam towards a different viewpoint.

Preparing the experiment

Illustrative modelDrag to orbit · scroll to inspect

White dots: direct starlight · blue dots: light redirected out of the beam

More dust · more light redirected

A qualitative scattering model. Real scattering depends on grain size, wavelength and viewing angle; the model does not infer grain properties from this photo.

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