It was shielded against far worse, against interstellar dust at relativistic speeds.
But in practice, we run into trouble at about a fifth of that speed, owing to interstellar dust and gas.
Most of the emission at infrared wavelengths originates from interstellar dust.
An asteroid crater was nearly eroded away from interstellar dust, which should be too thin to work so fast.
At this distance, extinction from interstellar dust is causing a magnitude reduction of about 0.6.
They weren't afraid of protosun sunlight, but they seemed to fear interstellar dust.
The ship began to drag a little, a very little, as the cone scooped up interstellar dust and hydrogen.
They said the circumstellar particles were definitely much larger than mere interstellar dust.
The brightness of the star is diminished by 0.21 in magnitude because of extinction from interstellar dust and gas.
All around were walls of tenuous interstellar dust lit from within.