... This gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes . ...
... 2003 May 20 . A Primordial Quasar . Drawing Credit: Wolfram Freudling et al. ( STECF ), ESO , ESA , NASA . ... Drawing Credit: Wolfram Freudling et al. ( STECF ), ESO , ESA , NASA . Explanation: What did the first quasars look like? ...
... Astronomy Picture of the Day . Index - Quasars. ... A Galaxy Gravitational Lens . Gamma-Ray Quasars . A Quasar-Galaxy Collision? . Microlensing of the Einstein Cross . ...
... The bright image to quasar's right is a star, the faint object just above the quasar is an elliptical galaxy , with an ... Quasars appear as unresolved points of light, as do stars, and hence quasars were thought to be a type of star until the 1960s ...
... Recent evidence indicates that most quasars live near the centers of large, elliptical galaxies - even those quasars where no host galaxy could be found before. ...
... Astronomers use a number known as "Z" to quantify this cosmological redshift and the quasar at the left, with a Z of 5, was just proclaimed the new quasar redshift champion (from left to right the measured Zs are 5.00, 4.90, 4.75). ...
... November 17, 1996 . A Quasar in the Gamma-Ray Sky . Credit: EGRET team, Compton Observatory , NASA . ... The bright object in the center of the false color image above is quasar 3C279 viewed in gamma-rays , photons with more than 40 ...
... December 26, 1998 . Gamma-Ray Quasar . Credit: EGRET team, Compton Observatory , NASA . ... The bright object in the center of the false color image above is quasar 3C279 viewed in gamma-rays , photons with more than 40 ...
... This recently released gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes. ...
... This gallery of quasar portraits from the Hubble Space Telescope offers a look at their local neighborhoods: the quasars themselves appear as the bright star-like objects with diffraction spikes . ...