The large amount of light extinction by dust, he adds, indicates that gamma-ray bursts occur in the densest, dustiest regions of the universe.
We reached these after Schmitz steered me through security turnstiles at the entrance, a series of carpeted office suites and a labyrinth of polished concrete hallways dense with the dusty, sweet scent of cocoa.
Stars are formed from clouds of dusty, cool, dense molecular gas.
From dense cities to rolling countryside, dusty wastes to smaller settlements, everything sparkles with the kind of visual quality you expect from a game that's technically been in development for ten years, but you're never guaranteed to get.
Dense groves of fig trees extend from the dusty path, as bees browse the white, trumpet-like flowers of bindweed in their midst.
For example, man's first walk on the moon, coming shortly before the second edition was published in 1970, called for inclusion of a new word, "mascon," meaning the very dense material that lay just underneath the astronaut Neil Armstrong's dusty footprints.
I came out of the Passeig de Gràcia station on to a dusty, traffic-roaring city street and there, among the dense facades, was a house that bulged and warped, reaching up to a turquoise, green and violet elfish cap, like a fairyland roof in a children's book.
The decor was dated yet modest, dusty yet protected from the harsh tropical weather due to the ship's dense exterior.
So here, piercing the dense fog of obscurity that shrouds this most august of institutions with exhaustive research undertaken in various dusty corners of the internet, is what may have happened.
