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Rare Quasar Quartet is the First of Its Kind

Medicine & Technology May 16, 2015

Imagine winning the Powerball jackpot-more than once. You may have a sense of how a team of astronomers feels after their discovery of a set of four quasars at the visible universe's edge. These brilliant beacons of light are typically spread far apart, but this quartet exists shoved together in only 650,000 light-years of space-equivalent to around a quarter of the distance between our closest big neighbor galaxy Andromeda and the Milky Way.

cold gas nebula

Rare Quasar Quartet is the First of Its Kind

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