Sarah Rugheimer

You know, they were looking in the sparse sky and they're like, Oh, this is weird.

And then did some more observations on it.

So, um,

You know, we can detect hydrogen in the universe.

We detect a lot of it.

It's just with, you know, different wavelengths.

And in this case, it was just surprising because we didn't expect to see this quantity of it.

Well, that's one way to detect it, but we actually don't see, we're not seeing stuff pass through it because there's not a lot of stuff there.

So you can see just kind of emission from these gas clouds directly.

A glow, if you will.

Yeah, so you can, but yeah, that is another way to detect these things for sure.

think this is interesting for to my knowledge this is very unique so i think we're gonna be spending more time looking at it um and trying to understand more about it um of course you know they're trying to figure out like you know why is this there um could it be part of some stream from another galaxy nearby you know could it

Like, what is causing it?

So there's some different ideas out there.

More observations are going to be needed to try to test these out and tease out what is happening here or what the alternative to this, you know, interpretation is.

But it's pretty weird.

And it's certainly the only object like this that I've come across.

I mean, I'm not in this research area myself, so I might have missed other things.

But to my knowledge, it's pretty abnormal.

And I'm curious to see where this goes and what future observations tell us this.