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An experiment flying on a balloon at the edge of the atmosphere offers the deepest far-infrared view of the sky yet achieved, revealing previously unidentified, dust-obscured, star-forming galaxies in the early Universe.

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  1. Ian Smail is at the Institute for Computational Cosmology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. ian.smail@durham.ac.uk ,

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Smail, I. Hidden Universe uncovered. Nature 458, 710–711 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/458710a

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