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^{3C273 | First Known Quasar}

^{This brilliant rainbow of colour is an amalgamation of images from NASA’s Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer space telescopes. This is the first known quasar, discovered in 1963, and the stream of particles flying out of it stretches over 100,000ly.}

^{(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Yale University)}

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