Subaru Telescope Image of Distant Quasar (IMAGE)

National Institutes of Natural Sciences

Subaru Telescope Image of Distant Quasar

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It shows a lonely quasar in the early universe, 13.05 billion light-years away from Earth. The other objects in the field are mostly foreground stars and galaxies.

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