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File:A Quasar's Companion Galaxy (left) and Galaxy Nucleus (right) (1996-35-456).jpg

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Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to clearly see the link between quasars and their companion galaxies.

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English: Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope have allowed astronomers to clearly see the link between quasars and their companion galaxies. Some quasars, such as the one in this two-panel image, have been caught in the act of merging or colliding with their companion galaxies.
Date 19 November 1996 (upload date)
Source A Quasar's Companion Galaxy (left) and Galaxy Nucleus (right)
Author John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) and NASA
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Galaxies; Cosmology; Active Galaxies/Quasars; Distant Galaxies

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Public domain This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA and ESA. NASA Hubble material (and ESA Hubble material prior to 2009) is copyright-free and may be freely used as in the public domain without fee, on the condition that only NASA, STScI, and/or ESA is credited as the source of the material. This license does not apply if ESA material created after 2008 or source material from other organizations is in use.
The material was created for NASA by Space Telescope Science Institute under Contract NAS5-26555, or for ESA by the Hubble European Space Agency Information Centre. Copyright statement at hubblesite.org or 2008 copyright statement at spacetelescope.org. For material created by the European Space Agency on the spacetelescope.org site since 2009, use the {{ESA-Hubble}} tag.

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