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Originally posted by iantresman@Jan 13 2005, 12:29 AM
This just out:
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January 10, 2005
Discovery By UCSD Astronomers Poses A Cosmic Puzzle: Can A 'Distant' Quasar Lie Within A Nearby Galaxy?
"An international team of astronomers has discovered within the heart of a nearby spiral galaxy a quasar whose light spectrum indicates that it is billions of light years away. The finding poses a cosmic puzzle: How could a galaxy 300 million light years away contain a stellar object several billion light years away?"
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Seems to me there must be a hole in the galaxy, and the quasar is indeed way behind the galaxy. Or perhaps the galaxy is dark-lensing the redshift. Anyway, since this is a one-off, there is no correlation with other QSOs, and might just indicate a temporal warp field distortion.
Regards,
Ian Tresman
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Interesting article. The whole thing can be found at:
http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/science/mcquasar.asp
It is the same galaxy that has been discussed here before. A member of Stephan's Quintet, NGC 7319. They're announcing this like they just discovered it.
Interesting.
Nice pictures, though they do look kind of familiar.