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Science of Stargazing – Quasars

Filed Under: Fundamentals of Stargazing

As a stargazer, you will sometimes be asked how far you can see with your telescope. The answer is “billions of light-years” if you are looking at a quasar. About a dozen of these strange, energetic objects are visible in a small telescope, and while they don’t look much different than stars, they are remarkable because they lie at distances that a...

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