British scientists have shown that it is possible to use a common kitchen microwave oven to make cosmic dust in the laboratory.

Scientists make cloud during a MICROWAVE to review the chemical origins of stars, planets and life itself

Cosmic dust is made by stars and supernova and builds up new star systems 

By representative samples of this space dust are hard to return by on the world 

Dust are often replicated within the lab but the drying process used can take days

UK scientists have now shown that a microwave can cut this right down to ten minutes

British scientists have shown that it's possible to use a standard kitchen microwave to form cloud within the laboratory.

As the first solid matter formed within the early history of star systems, cloud is vital to understanding the chemical origins of stars, planets and even life itself.

Although samples of cloud have arrived on Earth within the sort of interplanetary particles, comet dust and meteorites, these are rarely representative.

The properties of this material can therefore either be investigated through astronomical observations or by testing simulated dust created within the laboratory.

However, creating our very own cloud on the world had previously been an upscale , complicated and time-consuming process. 

'The composition of cloud isn't well understood and it’s not currently possible to gather samples for analysis,' explained Stephen Thompson of the Diamond light , the UK's national synchrotron accelerator .

'So having the ability to form analogue dust samples within the microwave could help to shed light on our early system history.'

In their study, Dr Thompson and colleagues had been working with a way for producing solid materials from small materials called the sol-gel process.

Sol-gels begin with a consistency that's almost like that of cream — then they need to be dried so as to make the dust samples.

However, air drying the sol-gels may be a time-consuming process which will take around 24 hours to yield a finished sample. 

WHY IS cloud IMPORTANT? 

Cosmic dust is formed by stars and supernova and may form nebulae. 

These ultimately collapse to make new stars, planets and even life itself.

The properties of dust are therefore of great interest to astrophysicists.

Unfortunately, representative dust samples are hard to return by.

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