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Science 17 July 1998:
Vol. 281. no. 5375, p. 320
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5375.320
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ASTRONOMY:
Glow Reveals Early Star Nurseries

Andrew Watson

In images made by the world's first submillimeter camera, astronomers have seen signs of galaxies undergoing frenzied star formation when the universe was a fraction of its present age. According to one team member, the observation implies that astronomers studying visible light "have only seen about a fifth of the star formation in the early universe."

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