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OCR: Quasar QUASAR is short for quasi -stellar radio source QUASARS are intensely bright objects that look like stars when seen from the Earth. Scientists believe that they are the exploding centers forming galaxies. Quasars emit powerful radio waves and were first discovered in 1963 using radio astronomy. The nearest quasar to the Earth billion light-years away Farth