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Watch a lecture by Professor Francisca Kemper from ICE-CSIC/ICREA/IEEC exploring the complex relationship between interstellar dust reservoirs and galaxy evolution. Discover how dust presence influences evolutionary drivers like interstellar radiation fields and star formation, while simultaneously being shaped by galactic processes. Examine the "dust budget problem" revealed through far-infrared and submillimeter studies, which shows unexpectedly large dust masses at high redshifts that cannot be fully explained by dust production from evolved stars. Learn about the significant mismatch between dust production rates and observed dust mass in nearby galaxy interstellar mediums, and explore potential explanations and solutions to these apparent discrepancies in our understanding of cosmic dust distribution.
