Ten billion years ago earlier galaxy clusters existed than we knew, but the European satellites, Planck and Herschel, put the data through. Now Dust and gas from these three billion year old baby super galaxies have flown to hit us as light seen by the (SPIRE) instrument - an older reality than our own dust... more inside

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