A giant "blob" of gas has been found 10 million light years away – and astronomers are unclear about what is making it glow. Only a small number of these rare blobs, officially known as enormous Lyman ...

Back in 2000, astronomers discovered their first space blob billions of light-years away from Earth. It was glowing as brightly as a galaxy, and was as big as one, yet it didn't seem to be made of ...

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A combination of observation and modelling sheds new light on how Lyman-Alpha blobs form and why they shine so brightly. Lyman-Alpha blobs are among the rarest denizens of the distant universe.

A giant blob of gas in space emits an intense glow, and now astronomers think they know why: The cloud is filled with galaxies. Often several times larger than our own Milky Way galaxy, Lyman-alpha ...