no, it's Hanny's Voorwerp
Located near the spiral galaxy IC 2497 some 700 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor, it's known as Hanny's Voorwerp which is Dutch for Hanny's object.
What makes Hanny's Voorwerp astounding is that it's so unusual - a monstrous green blob with a huge central hole some 16 thousand light years across.
scientists now think it is a quasar light echo.(photo:Dan Smith, Peter Herbert, Matt Jarvis, ING )
a huge gas cloud in space...
scientists now think it's
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