An curved arrow pointing right. Astronomers have been perplexed for 15 years about Lyman-Alpha Blobs, giant clouds of shining light in space. Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, an ...

Unlike the sci-fi monster, this Blob didn’t come from outer space. This marine heatwave that was first detected in 2013 and was formed due to an area of persistent high-pressure over the Pacific ...