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What did the first quasars look like? The nearest quasars are now known to be supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies. Gas and dust that falls toward a quasar glows brightly, sometimes outglowing the entire home galaxy. The quasars that formed in the first billion years of the universe are more mysterious, though, with even the nature of the surrounding gas still unknown.
Above, an artist's impression shows a primordial quasar as it might have been, surrounded by sheets of gas, dust, stars and early star clusters. Exacting observations of three distant quasars now indicate emission of very specific colors of the element iron. These Hubble Space Telescope observations, which bolster recent results from the WMAP mission, indicate that a whole complete cycle of stars was born, created this iron, and died within the first few hundred million years of the universe.
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ash2276 74 months ago | reply
Woah! Awesome!
Oriano Nicolau [deleted] 74 months ago | reply
wow! fantastic very beautiful
The Consumerist 70 months ago | reply
Awesome
Ceylonica 66 months ago | reply
Wonderful.
:)-) 63 months ago | reply
awesome
amazing
PennzthePoet 59 months ago | reply
i guess God/creator does exsist huh
___MP 58 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Outer Space & Beyond, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
faery starz 58 months ago | reply
absolutely spectacular
gorgeous
beautiful
wow
Eddi van W. 58 months ago | reply
Hallo, ich bin der Administrator der Gruppe Creative Commons- Free Pictures, und wir würden uns freuen, wenn Du dies zu unserer Gruppe hinzufügen würdest.
Mara ~earth light~ 57 months ago | reply
many thanks - very inspiring picture!
Mara ~earth light~ 56 months ago | reply
many thanks again!
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Mara ~earth light~ 56 months ago | reply
thanks!
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Mara ~earth light~ 55 months ago | reply
thanks- I love this:)
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Mara ~earth light~ 55 months ago | reply
thanks - es ist mir immer wieder eine Freude damit zu arbeiten!
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wish you all good for the new year, greetings AM!
cathairstudios/photomelange 47 months ago | reply
Thanks for sharing!! :)
cathairstudios/photomelange 47 months ago | reply
Thanks again!
***Yuna*** 38 months ago | reply
Of course I had to add more wonderful stars, and so I used it here too. =)
Thank You!
umuekempi 38 months ago | reply
Brilliant thought plant contribution from central core fluid imtelligent system atmophere in air form complex building heart center temple house body of manhood host sex symbol image of perfection seal of life as spotted by NASA APOLLO 17 MISSION PHOTOGRAPH image of planet earth Africa . The cosmic kind of beast universal figure idol image of Africa is a spiritual being head in one body langauage order compliant seal of life.
akaLunaMoonbeam 27 months ago | reply
Magnificent!
FlowerLand85 19 months ago | reply
Something fabulous!