Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time


	Giant Mystery Blob Discovered Near Dawn of Time

tabsey

4-23-2009 3:47 AM

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Time and travel in space is mind boggling, even if you understand a little of it.

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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/a1dbe2a6-98b9-4338-af50-89ebfeb7b880/EFE0CD57-353B-4ABD-AE52-4B58E3830149/" 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.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html" href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.space.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.space.com/img/BEDF4050-7D7B-440E-B326-5E23E894E0CC" alt="" /></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.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html">This image of the Himiko object, the most massive object ever discovered in the early universe, is a composite and in false color. The thick horizontal bar at the lower right corner presents a size of 10 thousand light years</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.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html"><P class="MsoNormal"><SPAN>A newly found primordial blob may represent the most
massive object ever discovered in the early universe, researchers announced
today.</SPAN></P></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.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html"><SPAN>The gas cloud, spotted from 12.9 billion light-years away,
could signal the earliest stages of galaxy formation back when the universe was
just 800 million years old. </SPAN></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.space.com/scienceastronomy/090422-space-blob.html"><SPAN>"I have never heard about any [similar] objects that
could be resolved at this distance," said </SPAN><SPAN>Masami Ouchi, a researcher
at the Carnegie Institution in Pasadena, Calif. "It's <A href="http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagedisplay/img_display.php?pic=090422-space-blob-02.jpg&cap=This+image+of+the+Himiko+object+is+a+composite+and+in+false+color.+The+thick+horizontal+bar+at+the+lower+right+corner+presents+a+size+of+10+thousand+light+year.+Credit:+M.+Ouchi+et+al.">kind
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about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion kilometers). An object 12.9 billion
light-years away is <A href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071016-st-light-speed.html">seen as
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