Thursday, April 23, 2009

Himiko The Space Blob

Scientists aren't quite sure what it is:



ScienceDaily (Apr. 23, 2009) — Using information from a suite of telescopes, astronomers have discovered a mysterious, giant object that existed at a time when the universe was only about 800 million years old. Objects such as this one are dubbed extended Lyman-Alpha blobs; they are huge bodies of gas that may be precursors to galaxies.

So it's a really huge blob.

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