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Sky Talk: Inquisitive About Quasars

Date:
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Location:
155 Chem-Phys Bldg
Speaker(s) / Presenter(s):
Tim Knauer, University of Kentucky

Quasi-Stellar Objects, a.k.a. Quasars, deserve a special place in astronomy. Discovered only in the 1960's, to radio astronomers they can blaze like searchlights across the cosmos, yet in an op-tical telescope they innocently appear like stars. Behind their stellar appearance are powerhouses of energy on unthinkable scales. Where are the quasars? What are the quasars? What good are quasars? These answers and more at this SkyTalk.