🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

类星体

Pronunciation / Transliteration: lèi xīng tǐ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Quasar/ˈkweɪ.zɑːr/
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"科学家发现了一个极远的类星体。"

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As noun
  1. 1

    A massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope.

    "Astronomers used the telescope to observe a distant quasar emitting light from the early universe."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in 1964 as an acronym for 'quasi-stellar radio source', combining 'quasi-stellar' and 'radiator' or 'source'.

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