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Galaxies were observed as early as the late 1700s when Messier compiled a list of \({\sim }100\) bright nebulae (Messier in Technical report, Catalogue des Nébuleuses & des amas d’Étoiles (Catalog of Nebulae and Star Clusters), 1781).
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Large APEX (Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment) Bolometer Camera Array (LABOCA) Extended Chandra Deep Field South (ECDFS) Sub-millimetre Survey.
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United Kingdom Infra-red Telescope (UKIRT) Infra-red Deep Sky Survey—Ultra Deep Survey.
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Cowley, W. (2017). Introduction. In: The Nature of Dusty Star-Forming Galaxies. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66748-5_1
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