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3C 273 - Quasar in Virgo 
  
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This NightSkyInfo.com article briefly describes the discovery of quasars, what they are, and how to find the famous quasar 3C 273 in the night sky with a good backyard telescope. The…
http://www.nightskyinfo.com/archive/3c273_quasar/
Chandra Observes Cosmic Traffic Pile-Up In Energetic Quasar Jet 
  
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This Chandra press release discusses the Chandra X-ray image of quasar 3C 273. A powerful jet of energy is seen coming from the quasar, very fast at first and slowing down rapidly,…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/press/00_releases/press_110600_3c273.html
3C273 Activity: Faster Than a Speeding Bullet... 
  
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This activity from Chandra Education shows how to calculate the velocity of the energetic jet coming from quasar 3C 273. The page includes full solutions and explanations of the…
http://xray1.physics.rutgers.edu/3c273/bullet.html
HubbleSite: Hubble's exciting universe 
  
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This web site presents Hubble's fascinating discoveries from 1990-2020 through pictures, videos, and stories that describe the universe's past, present, and future. Articles describe…
https://hubblesite.org/hubble-30th-anniversary/hubbles-exciting-universe
Animations & Video: Black Holes 
  
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Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
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At this website you can see animations or slide shows involving black holes. For instance, you can see how the tidal forces of a nearby black hole can tear a star apart, and then you…
https://chandra.harvard.edu/resources/animations/blackholes.html
Cambridge Cosmology 
  
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At this site, you'll find extensive information on the Big Bang theory, galaxies and clusters, relic radiation, cosmic strings et al, and inflation. Also, there are several helpful…
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/origins_of_the_universe.php
Galaxy Zoo 
  
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Publisher: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
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Galaxy Zoo is an ongoing research project to classify millions of galaxies. The website has a short tutorial to teach the user how to classify the galaxies. Once they have passed a…
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zookeeper/galaxy-zoo/
Rotation Curves 
  
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M. White
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This website, from the University of California, Berkeley, provides a description of the study of stellar motion around the center of a galaxy, and includes a graph of rotational…
http://w.astro.berkeley.edu/~mwhite/darkmatter/rotcurve.html
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Boomerang Nebula 
  
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This Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) webpage presents an image of the Boomerang Nebula captured by the Hubble Telescope in polarized light. The webpage provides a description of…
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap071228.html
Andromeda Galaxy 
  
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This SolStation article provides basic information about the Andromeda Galaxy. It includes multiwavelength images, the history of discovery, and recent research developments.
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/andromeda.htm