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

question 67

Multiple Choice

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

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

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