October 2004 - Primeval quasar (artist's impression)
Artist's impression of a quasar located in a primeval galaxy (or protogalaxy) a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to discover substantial amount of iron in three such quasars.
Credit:European Space Agency andWolfram Freudling (Space Telescope-European Coordinating Facility/European Southern Observatory, Germany)
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| Id: | cal200410 |
| Year: | 2004 |
| Month: | 10 |
