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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4833. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Galaxies, Active Galaxies, Quasars And Galactic Nuclei

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An extragalactic object (one that lies well beyond the confines of our own Galaxy) that has a very small angular size, but which has a high redshift. Because the first objects of this kind to be discovered, in the early 1960s, were radio sources that coincided in appearance with what looked like stars, they were called `quasi-stellar radio sources', a name that was then abbreviated to quasar. Alt...

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