A dusty, normal galaxy in the epoch of reionization

@article{Watson2015ADN,
  title={A dusty, normal galaxy in the epoch of reionization},
  author={Darach Watson and Lise Christensen and Kirsten K. Knudsen and Johan Richard and Anna R. Gallazzi and Michał Jerzy Michałowski},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2015},
  volume={519},
  pages={327-330},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:2514879}
}
Thermal dust emission from an archetypal early Universe star-forming galaxy, A1689-zD1, is reported, which has a large stellar mass and is heavily enriched in dust, with a dust-to-gas ratio close to that of the Milky Way.
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