Quasar
[ˈkwāˌzär]Meaning
English, an extremely luminous active galactic nucleus, also called a quasi-stellar object
Background Story
The term quasar originated as a contraction of "quasi-stellar [star-like] radio source", because they were first identified during the 1950s as sources of radio-wave emission of unknown physical origin, and when identified in photographic images at visible wavelengths they resembled faint, star-like points of light.
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