Light from a distant quasar captured by the Subaru Telescope (IMAGE)

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Light from a distant quasar captured by the Subaru Telescope

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An example of the night-sky photograph we took with the Subaru Telescope. The tiny red dot at the center of the magnified image represents the light from a distant quasar, which existed when the universe was 800 million years old (13 billion light-years away).

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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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