Hubble telescope zeroes in on green blob in space

Seth Borenstein
Associated Press

WASHINGTON – The Hubble Space Telescope got its first peek at a mysterious giant green blob in outer space and found that it’s strangely alive.

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’t normally form.

The blob of gas was first discovered by a Dutch school teacher in 2007 and is named Hanny’s Voorwerp (HAN’-nee’s-FOR’-vehrp). Voorwerp is Dutch for object.

NASA released the new Hubble photo Monday at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle.

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