Thursday, April 23, 2009

'Space blob' baffles astronomers

By Jason Palmer
Science and technology reporter, BBC News

"It is a "Lyman-alpha blob" and is 55,000 light years across - as large as present-day galaxies.

Though younger such blobs have been found, "Himiko" confounds the idea that such large objects grew more recently by the merger of smaller ones."

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