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six quasar host galaxies
Six quasar host galaxies, as observed by the...
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Quasar 1229+204, as observed by the Hubble...
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3C 273, the brightest quasar, photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced...
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quasar and its companion galaxy colliding
Quasar and its companion galaxy colliding,...
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quasar PKS 2349βˆ’014
The quasar PKS 2349βˆ’014 (bright central disk), several billion light-years from Earth....
John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, NASA
Quasar 3C 273, the brightest and closest of the quasi-stellar radio sources.
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