#lyman-alpha_blob_1

Lyman-alpha blob 1

Lyman-alpha blob in the constellation of Aquarius

Lyman-alpha blob 1 (LAB-1) is a giant cosmic cloud of gas located in the constellation of Aquarius, approximately 11.5 billion light-years from Earth with a redshift (z) of 3.09. It was discovered unexpectedly in 2000 by Charles Steidel and colleagues, who were surveying for high-redshift galaxies using the 200 inch Hale Telescope at the Palomar Observatory. The researchers had been investigating the abundance of galaxies in the young Universe when they came across two objects which would become known as Lyman-alpha blobs—huge concentrations of gases emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line of hydrogen.

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