3C 273 - Wikipedia
3C 273 is a quasar located at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. It was the first quasar ever to be identified and is the visually brightest quasar in the sky as seen …
NASA’s Hubble Gets the Best Image of Bright Quasar 3C 273
2023年4月17日 · This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the …
NASA’s Hubble Takes the Closest-Ever Look at a Quasar
2024年12月5日 · For Hubble, staring into the quasar 3C 273 is like looking directly into a blinding car headlight and trying to see an ant crawling on the rim around it. The quasar pours out …
Quasar 3C 273 - Science@NASA
2024年12月5日 · A two-panel image of quasar 3C 273, taken by different Hubble instruments. The top panel is a WFPC2 image of 3C 273. It looks like a bright white car headlight. There’s a …
Seek out 3C 273, the brightest optical quasar, in the spring sky
Known as 3C 273, this was the first quasar to be identified and the optically-brightest at magnitude +12.9. It is the extremely luminous core of an active galaxy powered by a …
Best image of bright quasar 3C 273 - ESA/Hubble
This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the …
3C 273 's Database - UNIGE
The bright quasar 3C 273 is one of the best studied active galactic nuclei (AGN) in all spectral bands. The aim of this site is to provide a consistent and as complete as possible database of …