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World Service,2 mins

Star birth: “These little fuzzy blobs are what get me out of bed in the morning”

Unexpected Elements

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Dr Mark Swinbank talks the profound differences between the Universe now and how it was 10 billion years ago. Stars formed at dizzying rates back then. Mark is using the Atacama Large Millimetre Array telescope in Chile to figure out why. (Photo:Radio telescope antennas of the ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) project in the Chajnantor plateau, Credit: ARIEL MARINKOVIC / Stringer / Getty Images)

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