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[quote]The Hubble Space Telescope has had its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it is strangely alive.
The bizarre glowing blob is giving birth to new stars, some only a couple million years old, in remote areas of the universe where stars do not normally form.
The blob of gas was discovered first by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny's Voorwerp. Voorwerp is Dutch for object.
Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. Nasa released the new Hubble photo at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle, Washington.
The stellar nurseries are outside of a normal galaxy, which is usually where stars live. That makes these "very lonely newborn stars" that are "in the middle of nowhere", said Bill Keel, the University of Alabama astronomer who examined the blob.
The blob is the size of the Milky Way, the galaxy that includes the Earth, and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about six trillion miles.
It consists of mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies; it glows because it is illuminated by a quasar in one of the galaxies. A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole.
The blob was discovered by elementary school teacher Hanny van Arkel, who was 24 at the time, as part of a worldwide Galaxy Zoo project where everyday people can look at archived star photographs to catalogue new objects.
Ms van Arkel said when she first saw the odd object in 2007 it appeared blue and smaller. The Hubble photo provides a clear picture and better explanation for what is happening around the blob.
"It actually looked like a blue smudge," Ms van Arkel said. "Now it looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green." She said she can even see what passes for arms and eyes.[/quote]
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[quote]The Hubble Space Telescope has had its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it is strangely alive.[/quote]I just know someone is going to read to there and then stop and reply
[editline]11th January 2011[/editline]
To paraphrase Carl Sagan, "there's so much amazing shit floating around in space, holy cocks"
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[QUOTE=Joakim Lindb;27349875]It's good to know that theres something alive in space that's creating stars. If it is alive, that is.[/QUOTE]
bam!!!
It's Cthulhu.
This is pretty awesome, I also love how the Hubble telescope is still showing us cool stuff.
It's good to know that theres something alive in space that's creating stars. If it is alive, that is.
It's the Reapers!
[QUOTE=Randdalf;27349899]It's the Reapers![/QUOTE]
Ah yes, "Reapers". Immortal race of sentient starships allegadly waiting in dark space.
We have dismissed that claim.
Nibiru is forming for 2012 :tinfoil:
The Blob.[B] IN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAACE[/B]
[QUOTE=Random94;27349963]Nibiru is forming for 2012 :tinfoil:[/QUOTE]
Ah yes, that planet.
The one the size of a galaxy and 650 million light years away
It's R.E.G.I.S, green R.E.G.I.S
We're fucked, there's no point panicking cause we're all dead anyway.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37lf4n6lxX0[/media]
Space Blob sounds like a terrible yet easy to watch sitcom revolving around some disdained aliens drifting in space
[QUOTE=Hardpoint Nomad;27349816]It's Cthulhu.[/QUOTE]
Sounds and looks more like Yog-Sothoth.
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[quote]"It actually looked like a blue smudge," Ms van Arkel said. [b]"Now it looks like dancing frog in the sky because it's green."[/b] [/quote]
:pcgaming:
I, for one, welcome our new master of the universe, even if he does look like a :frog:
[QUOTE=Randdalf;27349899]It's the Reapers![/QUOTE]
no, it's the voorwerp :downs:
[quote]It consists of mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies; it glows because it is illuminated by a [B]quasar[/B] in one of the galaxies. A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole.[/quote]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIKECCv8cFc&feature=related[/media]
For a Godly being it sure does look fucking terrifying. Good thing it's not really alive.
[QUOTE=Ninja Duck;27354718]Gabe Newell is a common problem had when peering through a telescope.[/QUOTE]
I heard, when the position of Gabe Newell is correct, we can use gravitational lensing to peer further into the universe than we ever have before.
It's Great A'Tuin.
Remnants of the big bang maybe?
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