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National Institutes of Natural Sciences

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On the left is an artist's impression of the Cosmic Infrared Background resolved with ALMA. On the right is a diagram that shows that the sum of the emissions from the faint objects detected with ALMA reaches the CIB measured with satellite observations.

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