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Old 07-30-2006, 10:30 AM   #1
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Default Biggest thing in the universe? The "blob" of course...
Fascinating stuff actually.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/0...lob/index.html
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Old 07-30-2006, 10:40 AM   #2
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I'm not sure who is resposible for giving people a sense of scale.
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Some of the gas bubbles are up to 400,000 light years across, nearly twice the diameter of our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy.
Why not say they are 4 times the size of our galaxy, rather than comparing it to a different galaxy?
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Old 07-30-2006, 10:53 AM   #3
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I thought you were talking about Bob McKenzie until I read the article.
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