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Powerful starlike object
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quasar
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Quasar is a North American brand of electronics, first used by Motorola in 1967 for a model line of transistorized color televisions . These TVs were marketed containing all serviceable parts in a drawer beside the picture tube. It was then established ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Another team reported finding where all the old quasars have gone. ▪ Astron will also observe the very distant and powerful quasars. ▪ Discovered in the early 1960s, quasars at first seemed to be small, bright stars. ▪ Intense ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1964, from "quas(i-stell)ar radio source" (1963); from quasi- + stellar .
Usage examples of quasar.
June 1968 Analog that suggested the quasars are actually interstellar spacecraft within our own galaxy.
When the ritual of obstructionism to obtain the spectra of the BSOs ensued, Margaret Burbridge, a Briton with over fifty years of observational experience, bypassed the regular channels to make the measurement herself using the relatively small 3-meter reflector telescope on Mount Hamilton outside San Jose in California, and confirmed them to be quasars.
Variable stars, pulsars, spinars and quasars within the galaxy and out of it had each their effects upon the subfoundation of space through which the starship moved.
Thus it was in 1963 that Hoyle and William Fowler, astrophysicist from CalTech, proposed that the quasars might be supermassive objects relatively close to our own galaxy.
This opaque object was classified as a nonstandard quasar, as if there were such a thing as a standard quasar.
Incidentally, the Seyfert galaxies resemble the quasars in many respects, including the fact that they both tend to show sizable variations in light and radio output.
Arp found their association with quasar pairs to be so strong that it could almost be said to be a predictable attribute of Seyfert galaxies.
So the high redshift, quasarlike Seyfert ejected from the low redshift spiral was itself ejecting a pair of yet-higher-redshift sources, which turned out to be quasars.
Arp found that on charts showing quasar positions, pairing the quasars by redshift almost always leads to finding a cataloged Seyfert close to the center point between them.
She also removed the obvious quasars and Seyfert galaxies that masqueraded as brown dwarfs in her survey.
Variable stars, pulsars, spinars and quasars within the galaxy and out of it had each their effects upon the subfoundation of space through which the starship moved.
He visited Earth and met the australopithecines, he helped chart gas clouds and quasars, he ferried crews to outposts and construction projects.
Pulsars and quasars, both brilliant beacons glimpsed across the cosmos, had proved to be powered by small specks of compressed mass, resolved only decades after their emissions made them obvious.
There were clusters of freckles on her forearms and wrists, an entire Milky Way spreading across her forehead, even a few sputtering quasars flung into the wormholes of her ears.
They had cobbled together ideas from the study of pulsars and quasars and their story fit together reasonably well.