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How I wonder what you are
So astronomers see this thing 12.9 billion light years away, but they don't know what it is.
They're calling it a "blob". On the one hand, I think I hear Newton turning in his grave. Blob? Seriously? But on the other hand, I like the way that word immediately communicates to the layman (and to children) that we don't know what the hell it is. Sure, Newton is dead, but science is alive. Contrary to what some would believe, you don't have to know everything to be a scientist. We're always finding stuff we don't know. And we dig that. You can just about hear how excited Dr. Masami Ouchi of the Arnegie Institution is in this quote:
"There are two possibilities: the standard scenario of galaxy formation is wrong, or this particular object is showing something unique,"
But as is often the case, this mystery has a mundane answer. I know exactly what this "blob" is:
Posted by Wulf on April 22, 2009 at 08:50 PM
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