Astronomy by microscope? | The Royal Society
Channel: The Royal Society
Date: 2023-03-06

It makes sense to use a telescope to look up at the heavens, 🔭 but what can we learn from using a microscope instead? 🔬 

#space #meteor #astronomy #biology 

Meteorites are natural objects that survive their fall to Earth from space. Almost all are fragments of ancient asteroids, formed at the birth of the Solar System, approx 4567 million years ago. Meteorites carry within them a record of the history of the solar system. Tiny grains within meteorites have come from other stars, giving information about the stellar neighbourhood in which the Sun was born. And some meteorites contain organic compounds – materials which might have helped life on Earth to get started! 🌴

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