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Hubble peeks into the homes of quasars
News story originally written on November 19, 1996
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is providing astronomers with
high resolution images of quasars. These new images show that quasars
live in many different kinds of galaxies.
Quasars were discovered only 33 years ago and are the universe's most
energetic objects. They are thought to born as a result of collisions between
pairs of galaxies. Quasars are not much bigger than Earth's solar system but
gives out 100 to 10,000 times as much light as an entire galaxy containing
hundred billion stars.
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