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Hubble Space Telescope View of One of the Most Distant and Luminous Quasars Ever Seen

Caption: This is a Hubble Space Telescope view of one of the most distant and luminous quasars ever seen (circled in white) and dates to less than one billion years after the big bang. This near-infrared light image was taken with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 in December 2010 and January 2011.

Credit: Credit: NASA/ESA/M. Mechtley, R. Windhorst, Arizona State University

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