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Nature 458, 710-711 (9 April 2009) | doi:10.1038/458710a; Published online 8 April 2009

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Astrophysics: Hidden Universe uncovered

Ian Smail1

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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.

To the human eye, the night sky is a canopy of stars. With the aid of a small telescope it is possible to see our nearest Galactic neighbours, and using sensitive charge-coupled detectors and the world's largest optical telescopes we can go beyond this and peer into the farthest reaches of the Universe.

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

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