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Interstellar dust is a ubiquitous component of galaxies, but some of its most fundamental properties are still poorly understood. This work analyzes the average extinction properties of dust in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) through color-magnitude diagrams (CMDs) of resolved …

Over the past 30 years, the cosmic microwave background (CMB) has profoundly influenced our understanding of the history of our universe and ushered in an era of precision cosmology. The spatial anisotropy (both polarized and unpolarized) has been the focus of both experiment an…