Pic shows celestial object that seems to be three different things at once

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  • 5 Apr
  • 2023

Pic shows celestial object that seems to be three different things at once

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a picture of a celestial object that lies about 390 million lightyears from Earth in the constellation Lyra. It is sometimes defined as an active galactic nucleus, sometimes as a quasar, and sometimes as a Seyfert galaxy. "It's all these things all at once because these three definitions have significant overlap," NASA said.

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