The BLAST (Balloon-borne Large-Aperture Sub-millimeter Telescope) project led by Mark Devlin of the University of Pennsylvania collected data 120,000 feet above Antarctica, enabling researchers to peer into the distant universe at wavelengths nearly unattainable from the ground.

During the 1980s and 1990s, certain galaxies called Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies were found to be forming hundreds of times more stars than local galaxies, the scientists said. Those "starburst" galaxies, 7 billion-10 billion light-years from Earth, were thought to make up the Far Infrared Background discovered by satellite.

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I found this rather cool. Especially the fact that they were able to retrieve it after all. I remember hearing about it being feared lost forever.