quasar

• The light that filled his inferno poured out of a cloudy greenish halo like a quasar spinning rapidly above him. —  FSFDec2003
• In 1964 Hong-Yee Chiu, of Columbia University, coined the term "quasar," for which English language purists have never quite forgiven him. —  BEN BOVA Editor
• Then Jerome Kristian of the Mt. Palomar Observatory has pointed out that on every photographic plate taken with the 200-inch telescope where the redshift of the quasar is small enough so that an astronomer would expect to be able to see a galaxy at that distance, a faint image of a galaxy does indeed appear—surrounding the quasar! —  BEN BOVA Editor
• "A black hole started eating gas clouds and stars," Julianna explains, "and there was this terrific light I know what a quasar is," Tom says. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002
• "It wasn't a quasar," he maintains with a loud, knowing voice. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 03 - September 2002

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