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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/hubble-finds-green-blob-space.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="An unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-hubble-finds-green-blob-space.jpg" alt="An unusual, ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it&#8217;s strangely alive.</p>
<p>The bizarre glowing blob is giving birth to new stars, some only a couple million years old, in remote areas of the universe where stars don&#8217;t normally form.</p>
<p>The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny&#8217;s Voorwerp. Voorwerp is Dutch for object.</p>
<p>Nasa released the new Hubble image on Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.</p>
<p>Parts of the green blob are collapsing and the resulting pressure from that is creating the stars. The stellar nurseries are outside of a normal galaxy, which is usually where stars live.</p>
<p>That makes these &#8220;very lonely newborn stars&#8221; that are &#8220;in the middle of nowhere,&#8221; said Bill Keel, the University of Alabama astronomer who examined the blob.</p>
<p>The blob is the size of our own Milky Way galaxy and it is 650 million light years away. Each light year is about six trillion miles.</p>
<p>The blob is mostly hydrogen gas swirling from a close encounter of two galaxies and it glows because it is illuminated by a quasar in one of the galaxies. A quasar is a bright object full of energy powered by a black hole.</p>
<p>The blob was discovered by elementary school teacher Hanny van Arkel, who was 24 at the time, as part of a worldwide Galaxy Zoo project where everyday people can look at archived star photographs to catalogue new objects.</p>
<p>Since Ms van Arkel&#8217;s discovery, astronomers have looked for similar gas blobs and found 18 of them. But all of them are about half the size of Hanny&#8217;s Voorwerp, Mr Keel said.</p>
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