• In astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line. LABs are some of the largest known individual...
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    Lyman-alpha blob 1 (LAB-1) is a giant cosmic cloud of gas located in the constellation of Aquarius, approximately 11.5 billion light-years from Earth...
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    large gas cloud found at redshift of z=6.6 that predates similar Lyman-alpha blobs. At the time of its discovery in 2009, researchers said it "may represent...
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    of quantum electrodynamics. Lyman limit Lyman-alpha forest Lyman-alpha emitter Lyman-alpha blob Lyman-break galaxy K-alpha line Gladstone, G. Randall;...
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    these rapid developments and adjustments, this list may be unreliable. Lyman alpha nebulae around quasars can have sizes between 15 kpc and 460 kpc. Especially...
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    closely related to the dark matter particle mass. Lyman-alpha blob Lyman break galaxy Lyman alpha emitter Lyman continuum photons Patrick McDonald; Uros Seljak;...
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  • Newfound Blob may refer to: Lyman-alpha blob 1 (LAB-1), one of the first discovered Lyman-alpha blobs Himiko (Lyman-alpha blob) EQ J221734.0+001701, the...
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    TON 618 (category Lyman-alpha blobs)
    is a hyperluminous, broad-absorption-line, radio-loud quasar, and Lyman-alpha blob located near the border of the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma...
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    A Lyman-alpha emitter (LAE) is a type of distant galaxy that emits Lyman-alpha radiation from neutral hydrogen. Most known LAEs are extremely distant,...
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  • regular variations in chromospheric activity, it has a rotation period of 36.5±1.6 days. Stellar models give an estimated mass of around 76% of the Sun. It...
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    limit Lyman-alpha blob Lyman-alpha forest Lyman-break galaxy Lyman series Haro 11 - One of the two galaxies in the local universe that 'leaks' Lyman continuum...
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    a Lyman-break galaxy at z ~ 14.32, which was also found by the JWST. Balmer break BzK galaxy Damped Lyman-alpha system Lyman-alpha blob Lyman-alpha emitter...
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    K2-138, also designated EPIC 245950175 or EE-1, is a large early K-type main sequence star with a system of at least 6 planets discovered by citizen scientists...
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    UM 287 (category Lyman-alpha blobs)
    UM 287 has a Lyman-alpha blob structure surrounding the object. Some of these Lyman-alpha blobs have line luminosities up to ~ 1044 erg s−1 with their spatial...
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    ago. This object is made up of lyman-break galaxies and large gas bubbles, such as lyman-alpha blobs and lyman-alpha emitters gaseous filaments. Some...
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    absorption lines. In 2021 the white dwarf was observed with Lick, Magellan 1 and Keck. The observations showed that the object had absorption due to hydrogen...
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    "Lyman-alpha Emission from a Luminous z = 8.68 Galaxy: Implications for Galaxies as Tracers of Cosmic Reionization". The Astrophysical Journal. 810 (1):...
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  • galactic cluster. In 2006, K. Nilsson et al. reported finding a "blob" emitting Lyman alpha UV radiation. Analysis concluded that this was a giant cloud of...
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    Retrieved 13 July 2016. Cohn, J. University of California, Berkeley Lyman alpha systems and cosmology. Retrieved 21 February 2009. Seth, S.D.; Seth,...
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  • density of the normal matter of the universe Galactic orientation Lyman-alpha blob – Astronomical object type Longair, M. S. (2007). Galaxy Formation...
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  • the original on 25 January 2025. Retrieved 8 December 2024. Schembri, Jim (1 January 2021). "'The War With Grandpa' a funny family comedy; 'The Midnight...
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    ionization deficits in low redshift Lyman-alpha blobs". GBGs are thought to be low redshift examples of 'Lyman alpha blobs' (LABs). The abstract states: "We...
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    one of the most massive black holes ever measured. There is also a Lyman-alpha blob. Hevelius' name for the northern dog, Asterion, is from the Greek αστέριον...
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    left shows one of the largest blobs observed in this study. Glowing hydrogen gas in the blob is shown by a Lyman-alpha optical image (colored yellow)...
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    In astronomical spectroscopy, the Lyman-alpha forest is the sum of the absorption lines arising from the Lyman-alpha transition of neutral hydrogen in...
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  • Cruise Ship designed by Leiji Matsumoto. The name Himiko was given to a Lyman-alpha blob (a massive concentration of hydrogen gas believed to be a protogalaxy)...
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  • (March 2017). "[C ii] 158-μm emission from the host galaxies of damped Lyman-alpha systems". Science. 355 (6331): 1285–1288. arXiv:1703.07797. Bibcode:2017Sci...
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    Science: 78. arXiv:1507.05528. Bibcode:2014styd.confE..78H. doi:10.22323/1.233.0078. Horvath, Istvan; Hakkila, Jon; Bagoly, Zsolt (2014). "Possible structure...
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    ionization echoes, thermal echoes, and ionization deficits in low redshift Lyman-alpha blobs". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463 (2): 1554–1586...
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  • which connects galaxies together along threads of dark matter, or the Lyman-alpha blob, which is a bubble containing countless galaxies. Also a look at super-galaxies...
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