Witnesses reported seeing bodies in the rubble and clouds of dust shrouding the city, but with telephone communications cut the extent of damage was not immediately clear.
So much dust shrouds the protostar that its age can't be much more than 10,000 years, the team calculates.
Most of the smoke and dust that shrouded the area with a stinging pall had all but dissipated, laying bare the trade center's deformed remains.
/ Purple and empire / Turn to dust, / Shrouded in ashes".
In particular, it will be able to see the strength and topology of magnetic fields on a cosmic scale by looking at the the radio emissions they produce; it will be able to peer through the dust that shrouds many objects at optical frequencies and it will track the formation and evolution of nearby galaxies and galactic nuclei.
All of the seats have linen slipcovers, an echo of the dust cloths that shroud the furniture onstage.
Farther along, toward Kandahar, through desert where only thorn bushes grow and huge dust storms sometimes shroud the way ahead, the villages and towns are smaller, poorer and, because of the rough condition of the road, so cut off that few people can reach a hospital in an emergency.
VISTA is able to observe at infrared wavelengths, which can penetrate the clouds of dust that normally shroud the galactic center.
The still images are "a phenomenal body of work" that show a new, wide-angle look at the towers' collapse and the gray dust clouds that shrouded the city afterward, said Jan Seidler Ramirez, the chief curator of the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, which is compiling a digital archive of attack coverage.
Shot over several years in the Chinese provinces of Inner Mongolia and Shaanxi, "Behemoth" bears witness to grasslands swallowed by mines, lungs caked with coal dust and skies shrouded in smog.
