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This luxury handbag is made from the material NASA uses to collect comet dust


Luxury brand Coperni has created a small bag made of nanomaterial silica aerogel — previously used by NASA to collect comet dust.

Coperni, a French luxury brand, has unveiled the Air Swipe Bag, made entirely of NASA's nanomaterial silica aerogel, Fast Company reports. Scientist Steve Jones first created the substance for NASA's 1999 Stardust mission, which brought samples back from the Wild 2 comet. Aerogel is renowned for its lightweight build, taking the title of lightest matter in the 1990s, with a second version breaking that record.

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