Call it a cosmic growth spurt. A young galaxy is making stars 100 times as vigorously as our own.rnSMM J21350-0102 is shrouded in dust, which hides it from most telescopes. But the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) in Chile spotted the galaxy via sub-millimetre radio waves emitted by the dust. Light from the galaxy is absorbed by the dust, emitted as infrared, and stretched to radio wavelengths as the universe expands.
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