NASA's Hubble Gets the Best Image of Bright Quasar 3C 273
This
image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely
the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a
giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Its
light has taken some 2.5 billion years to reach us. Despite this great
distance, it is still one of the closest quasars to our home. It was the
first quasar ever to be identified, and was discovered in the early
1960s by astronomer Allan Sandage.
The term quasar is an abbreviation of the phrase "quasi-stellar radio source," as they appear to be star-like on the sky. In fact, quasars are the intensely powerful centers of distant, active galaxies, powered by a huge disc of particles surrounding a supermassive black hole. As material from this disk falls inwards, some quasars, including 3C 273, have been observed to fire off super-fast jets into the surrounding space. In this picture, one of these jets appears as a cloudy streak, measuring some 200 000 light-years in length.
Quasars are capable of emitting hundreds or even thousands of times the entire energy output of our galaxy, making them some of the most luminous and energetic objects in the entire Universe. Of these very bright objects, 3C 273 is the brightest in our skies. If it was located 30 light-years from our own planet — roughly seven times the distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us after the sun — it would still appear as bright as the sun in the sky.
WFPC2 was installed on Hubble during shuttle mission STS-61. It is the size of a small piano and was capable of seeing images in the visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
[SIDEBAR: America thought it was a Quasar. IT is, however, so is every hair on every head counted, and the JUDICIAL in the U$A got twisted in ITS' ideologies which may and probably are, DUE PROCESS in the air-water-food- and certainly INTELLECTUALLY the 3Rs got dropped which was a very tragic crime, in real time reality, look-see the failed nation state isn't exactly the "World's Envy", as the courts advertised to the world to take over the world. NO MATHS, no trust. Simple formula of EQUAL WEIGHING MEASUREMENTS OF TRADE AND EXCHANGE. In a word, DUH.]
... to be con't ....
The term quasar is an abbreviation of the phrase "quasi-stellar radio source," as they appear to be star-like on the sky. In fact, quasars are the intensely powerful centers of distant, active galaxies, powered by a huge disc of particles surrounding a supermassive black hole. As material from this disk falls inwards, some quasars, including 3C 273, have been observed to fire off super-fast jets into the surrounding space. In this picture, one of these jets appears as a cloudy streak, measuring some 200 000 light-years in length.
Quasars are capable of emitting hundreds or even thousands of times the entire energy output of our galaxy, making them some of the most luminous and energetic objects in the entire Universe. Of these very bright objects, 3C 273 is the brightest in our skies. If it was located 30 light-years from our own planet — roughly seven times the distance between Earth and Proxima Centauri, the nearest star to us after the sun — it would still appear as bright as the sun in the sky.
WFPC2 was installed on Hubble during shuttle mission STS-61. It is the size of a small piano and was capable of seeing images in the visible, near-ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
[SIDEBAR: America thought it was a Quasar. IT is, however, so is every hair on every head counted, and the JUDICIAL in the U$A got twisted in ITS' ideologies which may and probably are, DUE PROCESS in the air-water-food- and certainly INTELLECTUALLY the 3Rs got dropped which was a very tragic crime, in real time reality, look-see the failed nation state isn't exactly the "World's Envy", as the courts advertised to the world to take over the world. NO MATHS, no trust. Simple formula of EQUAL WEIGHING MEASUREMENTS OF TRADE AND EXCHANGE. In a word, DUH.]
... to be con't ....
The POWER of the unseen is seen and the seen always is about balancing the unseen into the seen. HITLER thought he would have a 1000 year rein in his REICH too. The unseen energy decided for the seen and now that paradigm shift is happening again, the United States JUDICIAL to do what has been done to the SOVEREIGN MONEY is a high crime against the U.S. Constitution's due process law. Call it TREASON, DARE TO, it is time.
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