Thank you RickG,
some of us may be lying in the gutter but,
we are lookiing at the stars.
some of us may be lying in the gutter but,
we are lookiing at the stars.
Unidentified blob
- Thread starter Greg Masters
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Thank you RickG,
some of us may be lying in the gutter but,
we are lookiing at the stars.
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Is it going to affect my pension?
It might not look like much, but this image represents one of the most distant objects astronomers have ever seen, 12.9 billion light years away.
It is a "Lyman-alpha blob" and is 55,000 light years across - as large as present-day galaxies.
Though younger such blobs have been found, "Himiko" confounds the idea that such large objects grew more recently by the merger of smaller ones.
The research will be published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Current cosmology models hold that between 200 million and one billion years after the Big Bang, the first colossal stars formed, emitting radiation that stripped light elements of their electrons and turned the Universe into a soup of charged particles.
Only after this "re-ionisation epoch" did matter as we now know it really start to clump together.
Bloody obvious really. I'm surprised more of you didn't know
And just how will all that effect a 1200GS? Should be on another thread...or site...or planet!
Whilst I can't be certain why Greg posted this question in the 1200 section, it could be because the mystery posed by this blob's existence is similar in magnitude to those posed by owning a 1200. For example:
When will my fuel pump controller fail?
When will my battery finally wimp out?
Can I ever torque the pinch bolts adequately?
Were BMW serious when they said the final drive was sealed for life?
What kind of oil should I use?
There may eventually be answers to these and the blob mystery, but until then, we can only speculate...
When will my fuel pump controller fail?
When will my battery finally wimp out?
Can I ever torque the pinch bolts adequately?
Were BMW serious when they said the final drive was sealed for life?
What kind of oil should I use?
There may eventually be answers to these and the blob mystery, but until then, we can only speculate...
