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title: The Strange Case of the Himiko Blob — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/the-strange-case-of-the-himiko-blob/
date: 2016-12-20
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# The Strange Case of the Himiko Blob

In 2009, a team of Japanese astronomers discovered Himiko Blob which is a very bright galaxy, its light originally wouldn’t be able to make it through the atmosphere. So why were those astronomers able to discover it?