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quasar
A Hubble image of a nearby quasar. New Spitzer Space Telescope infrared observations of distant quasars, objects whose light traces an early epoch of the universe (about 12 billion years ago), have discovered that some apparently date from a time before dust had been made, or at least before it was readily available.
Credit: NASA Hubble Space Telescope
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