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Largest Object in the Universe Discovered

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-a-big-twinkie dept.

prostoalex writes "Quick, think of the largest object you can imagine. Whatever your imagination delivered it probably wasn't an 'enormous amoeba-like structure 200 light-years wide and made up of galaxies and large bubbles of gas,' a newly found object, as USA Today reports."

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  1. We're doomed by lysergic.acid · · Score: 5, Funny
    They're here already...
    The filaments were recently seen using the Subaru and Keck telescopes on Mauna Kea.
    Atleast they seem more interested in using our high-powered telescopes than enslaving mankind.
  2. An enormous amoeba-like structure... by ptelligence · · Score: 5, Funny

    Stuck to the lens of the telescope.