The Specific Characteristics That Identify MOST Quasars Are

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Multiple Choice

The specific characteristics that identify MOST quasars are:

• A) that they look like elliptical galaxies but with high spectral redshifts.
• B) bright, starlike appearance and very high spectral blueshift, indicating that they are approaching the Sun very fast, and rapid intensity fluctuations, indicating small intrinsic size.
• C) bright, starlike appearance with very high redshifts and hence very large distances, indicating very energetic sources.
• D) spiral galaxy appearance and very high spectral blueshift, indicating that they are coming toward the Sun at high speed.

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