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Mysterious green blob sighted by Hubble Telescope.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_blob

Hubble telescope zeroes in on green blob in space

WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it's 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 don't normally form.

The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny's Voorwerp (HAN'-nee's-FOR'-vehrp). Voorwerp is Dutch for object.

NASA released the new Hubble photo Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.

Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. 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 our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about 6 trillion miles.


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Romulan Empire?
 
This is significant because it's like a "micro galaxy". It's a small area of gas that clumped together with enough pressure to start forming stars. Kind of like a nebula outside of a galaxy. Really an oddity.
 
techs said:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110110/ap_on_sc/us_sci_space_blobThe bizarre glowing blob is giving birth to new stars, some only a couple million years old, in remote areas of the universe where stars don't normally form.

The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny's Voorwerp (HAN'-nee's-FOR'-vehrp). Voorwerp is Dutch for object.

NASA released the new Hubble photo Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.

Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. 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 our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about 6 trillion miles.
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They're far from being only a few million years old now. 😵
 
I've met the guy who was the first person ever to visually see Hanny's Voorwerp. No joke. He used a 42 inch reflector. I met him at a star party.
 
911paramedic said:
They're far from being only a few million years old now. 😵
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what gets to me is that I wonder what these places look like right NOW. The cool part about looking 'further' into space is you look at older and older light so we see what the universe looked like then....
...but the downside is we don't know what it looks like now.

Makes me wonder if the areas we look at actually are teeming with life everywhere right now and we don't know it. And they look into their versions of telescopes and say "OH wow, there is this planet that looks like it might form with life as its a decent distance away from a star and early analysis shows that glacial asteroids are bitch smacking the surface....so there is potential for organic life!"

Little did they know that if you fast forward 4 billion years...here we are 😛

And they are probably there as well lol
 
magomago said:
what gets to me is that I wonder what these places look like right NOW. The cool part about looking 'further' into space is you look at older and older light so we see what the universe looked like then....
...but the downside is we don't know what it looks like now.

Makes me wonder if the areas we look at actually are teeming with life everywhere right now and we don't know it. And they look into their versions of telescopes and say "OH wow, there is this planet that looks like it might form with life as its a decent distance away from a star and early analysis shows that glacial asteroids are bitch smacking the surface....so there is potential for organic life!"

Little did they know that if you fast forward 4 billion years...here we are 😛

And they are probably there as well lol
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3v3 BGH, no rush = 4 billion years. GG Have fun!
 
magomago said:
what gets to me is that I wonder what these places look like right NOW. The cool part about looking 'further' into space is you look at older and older light so we see what the universe looked like then....
...but the downside is we don't know what it looks like now.

Makes me wonder if the areas we look at actually are teeming with life everywhere right now and we don't know it. And they look into their versions of telescopes and say "OH wow, there is this planet that looks like it might form with life as its a decent distance away from a star and early analysis shows that glacial asteroids are bitch smacking the surface....so there is potential for organic life!"

Little did they know that if you fast forward 4 billion years...here we are 😛

And they are probably there as well lol
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yep. I was just thinking the same thing. Or even if we find other intelligent beings out there, A) we'll never get to them unless they come to us first, and B) even if we do get to them, who knows if that civilization will still be there or not
 
Mike Gayner said:
Relativity fail.
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heh heh I was actually thinking "relativity fail" just before i scrolled down to your post. It's always fun when someone adds the light year age to the perceived age. Or they say "well I wonder what it looks like right NOW". Relativity is definitely a mindf**k. 😛
 
Connoisseur said:
heh heh I was actually thinking "relativity fail" just before i scrolled down to your post. It's always fun when someone adds the light year age to the perceived age. Or they say "well I wonder what it looks like right NOW". Relativity is definitely a mindf**k. 😛
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the light from that green blob took 650 million years to reach us. So we're seeing how it looked 650 million years ago. It definitely looks much different now, 650 million years later. So yea, I do wonder what it looks like right now.
 
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