Word: quasar
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...need to surprise. Eno invented the bleeps and whirs that are mixed into the background of so many rock albums, and used as seasoning, his effects still have the power to create mystery. (On the title track, it sounds as if Bono is duetting with a quasar - very cool.) The problem is that too often Eno's tricks are the steak. Melody - the most surprising effect of all - dodges in and out but rarely makes itself at home, and all we're left with is an increasingly dull series of tricks killing time where the tunes should...
...which has a brightly lit core instead of a dark one. The galaxy’s center—known by scientists as a nucleus—emits light and radiation due to the powerful gravitational field of the black hole, and is better known as a quasar...
This region of super-heated gas, Elvis said, is shaped like a disk in NGC 1365’s quasar and is a source of X-ray radiation...
...astronomer likes to be cheated out of an observing night, whether the quarry is a mundane moon of Jupiter or an exotic quasar halfway across the cosmos. But Ellis has special cause for frustration: he's looking for something far more elusive than any quasar. Tonight he intended to bag something most astronomers consider next to impossible: the most distant galaxy ever seen--and not the farthest by just a little bit. The current record for distance, held by another giant Mauna Kea observatory, Japan's Subaru telescope, is for a galaxy whose light started its journey to Earth...
...experience without the hassles of playing a varsity sport,” says Marsh, citing the team’s ability to choose its own practice times and tournament destinations as perks of being on a club sport. Members of the Harvard Women’s Ultimate Frisbee Team, Quasar, also say they enjoy the flexibility of a student-run team.Quasar Coach Jeff Listfield ’02 says the leadership of Ultimate team is largely the responsibility of the players themselves. “I’m there to be a voice of knowledge, to help them play...