In the 1960s, Maarten Schmidt Determined That Quasars Were Very

question 68

Multiple Choice

In the 1960s, Maarten Schmidt determined that quasars were very distant objects by

• A)determining how small the source of light was from its luminosity variations.
• B)determining how luminous they were.
• C)determining their parallax angles.
• D)determining their redshifts.
• E)discovering that they were embedded in distant galaxies.

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