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This bending can create multiple images of the same quasar, each taking a slightly different path and therefore arriving at Earth at different times.
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 7 Dec. 2025
Those same atoms, molecules, and/or ions absorb the light from behind them — whether from a quasar, a background galaxy, a star, or from the continuum — revealing those same characteristic quantum transitions.
—Big Think, 19 Nov. 2025
After the detection of hydrogen, astronomers discovered previously unknown types of stars, such as pulsars and quasars.
—Gabriela Radulescu, The Conversation, 4 Nov. 2025
Still, if this is the engine behind all AGN, why do quasars, Seyferts and blazars all appear so different from each other?
—Phil Plait, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for quasar
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The other two instruments are really cool as well; they can both be used to dissect secrets of the cosmos, like the mystery of the universe's expansion rate (popularly called the Hubble Tension) and help with supernova modeling.—
Monisha Ravisetti,
Space.com,
8 Jan. 2026
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This is called a supernova explosion.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
4 Jan. 2026
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In 1992 that changed, when astronomers spotted two planets orbiting a pulsar 2,300 light years from Earth.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
Time,
2 Jan. 2026
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Gravitational forces from the much heavier pulsar are pulling the Jupiter-mass world into a bizarre lemon shape.—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Even though novas are exceptionally bright, supernovas are brighter—reaching billions of times brighter than the sun at their peak.—
Elizabeth Gamillo,
Smithsonian Magazine,
3 July 2025
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Recorded live at the Lincoln Center, the band plays a bossa-nova take on the song while Gaga sings solo, wearing one of Cher’s own wigs.—
Kristen S. Hé,
Vulture,
19 Mar. 2025
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Players getting paid can also affect locker room chemistry and become another variable to be managed.—
Ralph D. Russo,
New York Times,
8 Jan. 2026
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Instead, the number will stay low but variable.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
6 Jan. 2026
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With it, Venezuela’s transformation to a petroleum supergiant had begun — for better or worse.—
David Goldman,
CNN Money,
5 Jan. 2026
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Apep also includes a third star, a massive supergiant.—
Meghan Bartels,
Scientific American,
22 Dec. 2025
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What is a neutron star, or pulsar?—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
23 Dec. 2025
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Pulsar 2849 intrigued me with its neutron star premise.—
Nola Taylor Tillman,
Space.com,
21 Dec. 2025
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The companies aim to power Meta's Prometheus supercluster computing system.—
Jim Cramer,
CNBC,
9 Jan. 2026
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In the early 2010s, Courtois was part of the team that discovered and described the Laniakea supercluster of galaxies to which our Milky Way belongs.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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“Quasar.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/quasar. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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