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Surveys for High Redshift Quasars Schneider employs optical telescopes as time machines; they become portals to the distant past, viewing the universe when it was but a small fraction of its current size and age. His primary research program is finding and measuring the properties...Quasars (QSOs) are an illusion created by gravity lensing of photons from the opposite jet by a huge mass within the quasar.
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Home Page For a hypothesis explaining the Cosmological Red Shift click on RED SHIFT ABSTRACT This is a hypothesis which attempts to explain the characteristics of QSOs (quasi stellar objects) as an optical illusion created by gravitational lensing of the photons from...http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/html/first.html
Quasars and Active Galactic Nuclei
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Bill Keel's WWW Gallery Active Galaxies and Quasars Quasars and their kin remain among the most fascinating and mysterious of cosmic phenomena. This collection provides an introduction to the whole subject of active galactic nuclei. It started as the WWW version of a slide set produced for the...Part of an FAQ site that evolved from an exchange of e-mail messages with middle school science students.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Quasars What is your definition of a quasar? W, 8th grade, Blacksburg Middle School, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. 1996 What do quasars have to do with black holes? W, 8th grade, Blacksburg Middle School, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA. 1996 How big are quasars...Contains press release about the impact of quasars within various galaxies. Includes photos.
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HubbleSite Hubble Surveys the Homes of Quasars 11/19/1996 Ehome newscenter newsdesk archive releases 1996 35 Hubble Surveys the Homes of Quasars View all images Dramatic Hubble telescope pictures reveal that quasars live in a remarkable assortment of galaxies, many of which are violently colliding. This complicated picture suggests...Quasars are not black holes, they are laser stars within our galaxy.
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Laser Stars Quasars Since each radio source was associated with a star it was originally thought that quasars were objects within the galaxy hence the term radio stars Quasars or quasi-stellar radio source, from the method by which they where originally discovered as...Provides an introduction to galaxies and quasars. Includes an FAQ, quizes, and links.
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Active Galaxies and Quasars Introduction Show me related lesson plans Active Galaxies and Quasars Active galaxies are galaxies which have a small core of emission embedded in an otherwise typical galaxy. This core may be highly variable and very bright compared to the rest of...site exerpt
WMAP Cosmology 101: Structure Formation Quasars are the most distant distinct objects that astronomers have been able to directly detect. Because of their intrinsic brightness, the most distant quasars are seen at a time when the universe was one tenth its present age, roughly a...