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Mysterious Giant Space Blob Discovered At Cosmic Dawn.

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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. This blob was named Himiko for a legendary, mysterious Japanese queen. It stretches for 55 thousand light years, a record for that early point in time. That length is comparable to the radius of the Milky Ways disk.

Source: Carnegie Institution for Science

http://www.ciw.edu/news/mysterious_space_blob_discovered_cosmic_dawn