Quasars & Active Galaxies

Hello! Hopefully by now you'll have read a little about 3C 321, aka the "Death Star Galaxy" from last week's blog entry, which was a transcribed from a presentation I gave a few months ago. I wanted to take this opportunity to give you the insider's view on how we came to discover this amazing system, the point when we knew we had a pretty major result on our hands, and the media frenzy that ensued.

Dr. Dan Evans from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA, shares some information on 3c321, as of December 2007 now known as the Death Star Galaxy. Dan Evans has never seen Star Wars, so who came up with the nickname? Read on.

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