Dust in astronomical contexts covers small solid particles (minerals) – in terms of size they are like smoke particles and aerosols on the ground. Contrary to what one would immediately think, it is very few places in the universe where dust can occur. In fact, it is only in connection with the death of a star that the right conditions for dust formation are created. When the dust is formed, it will be blown out into the space between the stars, here are formed complex molecules, such as the Amino acids, alcohol and sugar on the dust surface. In the gas and dust clouds, new stars are formed and the dust grain present plays an all-important role in making stars like the sun and planets that the earth can be formed. The understanding of something as evesable as how dust grain becomes is in this way an important piece in understanding how both the sun, the earth and part of the complex molecules have been formed.

After giving a scholarship and lectures, there is a reception and a chance to visit the Geological Museum's new exhibition "The Solar System – from the origins of the life to the emergence"