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qua⋅sar

  [kwey-zahr, -zer, -sahr, -ser]
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–noun Astronomy.
one of over a thousand known extragalactic objects, starlike in appearance and having spectra with characteristically large redshifts, that are thought to be the most distant and most luminous objects in the universe.
Also called quasi-stellar object.

Origin:
1960–65; quas(i-stell)ar, in quasi-stellar radio source, the first type of quasar discovered
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qua·sar   (kwā'zär', -sär', -zər, -sər)   
n.  An extremely distant, and thus old, celestial object whose power output is several thousand times that of our entire galaxy.

[quas(i-stellar) + (st)ar.]
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quasar 
1964, from "quas(i-stell)ar radio source" (1963).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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quasi-stellar object
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