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Dust hides a universal starburst

Douglas Scott1

When were the stars born? A new type of detector has seen powerful emission from dusty distant galaxies, indicating that the most fertile period of star formation occurred when the Universe was only about an eighth of its current age.

  1. Douglas Scott is in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia, 6224 Agricultural Road, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1, Canada .
    e-mail: Email: dscott@astro.ubc.ca