Mysterious Giant Space Blob Discovered At Cosmic Dawn

[Joggione]

He sneezed on the lens.

[lumpfish99]

blob....hi my names blob.....but you can call me god.....either that or your telescope is out of focus.....

[shawnee2014]

our infinite space and the stars entering the highlight of the stars are billions of people since, the year that they reach us is how the calculated, this huge space of infinite

[blompy2]

Quasar

[battlestroke7]

I love these new discoveries.

That far and beyound many things dont exist anymore and new things cant be seen yet.

[SuperMagnetizer]

I wonder if this "blob" is a mother galaxy which somehow spawned much of the visible Universe, within an infinite one. It's only a matter of time before the Big Bang theory falls apart.

[adantesoup]

why do people think the universe is 13 billion years old? a 10 billion year old galaxy seen now would by default have to be 20 billion years old because the image is where it was 10 billion years ago.

[cpynch]

@adantesoup

lol no

If we see something that is 10 billion light years away we are seeing light from 10 billion years ago.

If you witness a star being born for example how ever many light years away it is is how old it is.

[rafaelhsouza]

The diameter of the Universe is estimated to be at least 78 billion light-years.

[adantesoup]

wherever we keep the hubble pointed, more and more galaxies start to show up. The estimate willl keep getting bigger and bigger until we realize there is no edge.

[rockdude1400]

thats why they say at least

but ur right

[Judicial78]

@adantesoup You realize that what you are saying is that the Universe has no beginning and the Big Bang never occured?

[planeshaperman]

@adantesoup I think if there was no edge, there would be no dark spots in the night sky.

[RockTheStones]

only that small ? :)

[Asiablue]

The arrogance of that statement is beyond measure. It's like saying you know how smart a guy is because you have measured his inner being. Science may be what we know, but it is always limited. If we can actually measure 78 billions light-years, fine. Beyond that? Well, as one comedian said: "On the other hand...I have more fingers."

[JohnLennen1]

the big bang theory is a bunch of BS

[dogigniter]

i'm more convinced that the universe began with the big crunch of the last universe

[nofooIn]

This is surprising because such a large clump of matter was not predicted to exist so soon after the Big Bang. By now it's probably one of the most massive black holes in the universe, possibly sitting out there all by itself, impossible to detect. Makes me afraid to jump in my battlestar.

[duhCider]

I could sue, Mysterious Giant Space Blob was my nickname in high school.

[PoisonedAntidote]

ok, who do we donate to so that we can find out wtf this is. something this rare must be important.

[sirnicholson]

great reading poisoned.next time let it flo!wait what?oh sorry i didnt know everyone could read this.i ...uh...oops!

[SSJNiK]

wow...first seeing himiko it looked like a nebula from a star that exploded billions of years ago..you know like a first generation star.Cause remember the further you look into space,is the way it looked before

[ENez0]

So what happened? It's been a few months, did they image Himiko with Hubble yet? =/ I never heard anything in the mainstream headlines...

[TheDreamer138]

By the look of the galaxys in space I am sure they are the creation of a huge explosion like firework in the sky, what I'm trying to find out is what objects how many of them collided to created the big bang and I believe the univese have no limit no end no matter which direction you traveling it is possible that there was two huge object one was ice and the other was rock collide in space to create the big bang and then the galaxy we see today but then again how rock and ice form at the beginin

[ENez0]

omg...... you gotta share whatever narcotics you're on, man.

[VirgilFoxMusic]

TheDreamer138

The "Big Bang" was an expansion of space-time from a singularity. There is plenty of information on this on the web. Before this expansion, there was no space or time. It seems you have a misconception of what the "Big Bang" refers to :)

[Patriotfrosh15]

What if the law of physics are messing with our minds by this big blob.

I think the universe is scary. It is like one big computer that keeps creating infinite codes and scripts. What if our universe was one big computer? I hope it doesn't crash:(]

[Truthiness231]

Watched The Matrix one to many times? ^.^

[simplynotedible]

I love "Unlike how the actual "blob" would look, this digital image appears pixellated because it is greatly magnified"

[shawnmcghee1]

Maybe it's a piece of the super-dense material from the Big Bang, that for whatever reason, took longer to dissipate than the rest of it.

Or maybe it's some explosion from a failed experiment or some powerful weapon by some ancient alien civilization.

Or it could be a second, smaller bang from a universe that didn't quite make it.

Or could it be i giganting nebula about to become one of the supermassive black holes that keeps galaxies together?

[JustAnAdjunct]

It iz gauwd. Praize t3h lawrd nonbelievers!

[Sadman35]

it looks like a binary star

[KARIN094]

I am anxious to find out what more has been discovered by the Hubble telescope. Totally Awesome!

[AlanKey86]

Absolutely fascinating. Great video! 5/5

[mikeJRthe2nd]

Wow, it was found a day before my birthday, now I am even more interested.

It does seem very odd, I doubt it is any kind of a god though since they didn't report it doing anything strange and such (guess it must have made people think about futurama or something). I hope it is something that will give a new generation of astronomy though.

[tigers123123]

I think it's the GOD!

:D

[Knowntje]

God has gotten fat

[paulusmagirl]

or maybe the Heaven!

[phricak]

Of course it is. It looks exactly like the hand of Apollo in Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 2, "Who Mourns for Adonais?"

:)

[DaveC86]

i read about this a week or so ago, very interesting. we still know so little about our universe.. exciting times! haha

[MilesB1975]

Nothing to worry about, it's probably just the next universe along!

[logoth80]

well it is inside our universe, at edge of visible space horizon, and the image we see is 13billion years old ;p

[jlaeschl]

It's not god

But, if I had to put any money "on a leap of faith" I would say we are seeing - for the first time - the remnants of a mid to large sized cluster of early universe stars that went supernova and the aftermath of this as a protogalaxy (more like an extremely large nebulae) which created the second or third generations of stars - depending on how one views the first generations of stars. But the signs to look for this to prove it (flashes of light) are probably to dim now.

[nabzdaman]

I am sertain it is a galaxy.

[pxxner]

i can't wait to see what hubble can resolve.

[ehuus0000]

"Its god"

[8WholeThing]

Far out!

[Akatam0t0ma]

It must be Nimburu! :-P

[phantomspellchecker]

No dummy. Nibiru is within our own solar system, while this blob is 10,000 light years across and millions of light years away. Nice try, why don't you crack open a science book every now and again?

[Brybryrox]

Screen capped for the best two comments I've seen in the last week.

[Akatam0t0ma]

I was being sarcastic, you know! ;-)

So you DO believe that planet Nimburu going to crash into earth in 2012? :-D

[phantomspellchecker]

I don't BELIEVE. I know from telescopic evidence that it exists. NO I don't think it is on a crash course with earth. There is no evidence for that. NO, aliens are not going to come down to earth from there, it's orbit is too elliptical to support life. It will come to it's perigee in the next few years and then swing back out into space like it does every 5000 years or so. No voodoo doom-saying involved.

[legion22NO]

lol

[Kframke]

@phantomspellchecker Yeah ... You should crack open a science book every now and again.

[annie19645]

this is 12.9 billion light years away

[Kframke]

@phantomspellchecker "Nibiru is within out own solar system" you say. How about YOU try to: 1. Crack open a science book yourself every now and again. 2. Learn to understand irony. 3. If you already have achieved 2, well a hint that you do, would be welcome in your entries.

kframke out.

[RationalFuture]

Or the fart of Dr. Manhattan :)

[whoarentyou]

Name a blob after a princess? Or name the blob because the princess was a blob too?

[cidvisions]

Sweet.