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Mysterious cosmic blob discovered in early universe
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/14207de5-cb33-43e6-9583-8a89416d5d02/AD857E04-B70A-4A33-9075-E00D8FE74497/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">astronomers looked back to when the universe was only 800 million years old and found something that was out of proportion and out of time. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">It was gaseous, big, and emitted a certain type of radiation</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">do not even know what to call it</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">called it a radiation-emitting "blob." </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">one possibility is that by chance, astronomers captured the moment a galaxy was forming in the early universe, which has never been seen before. </blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17006-mysterious-cosmic-blob-discovered-in-early-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=cosmology" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17006-mysterious-cosmic-blob-discovered-in-early-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=cosmology" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17006-mysterious-cosmic-blob-discovered-in-early-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=cosmology"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.newscientist.com/img/0BCFCDDE-45E2-489B-AD2A-FE2AD0A3053F" alt="This giant blob of hydrogen gas may hide a distant galaxy, one of the earliest yet found (Image: M Ouichi et al)" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17006-mysterious-cosmic-blob-discovered-in-early-universe.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=cosmology">It spans some 55,000 light years, about half the width of the Milky Way, and it sits some 12.9 billion light years from Earth</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">only three other objects have been seen that are from deeper in time and space. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/space/5205716/Space-blob-could-show-dawn-of-a-new-galaxy-say-astronomers.html">nothing was supposed to be that big at that time in the universe. The other objects from that period are far smaller</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AD857E04-B70A-4A33-9075-E00D8FE74497/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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