File:Hubble spies eight green filaments lit up by past quasar blasts (16458296783).jpg

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This image shows the winding green filaments observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope within eight different galaxies. The ethereal wisps in these images were illuminated, perhaps briefly, by a blast of radiation from a quasar — a very luminous and compact region that surrounds a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy.

More information: <a href="http://spacetelescope.org/images/heic1507a/" rel="nofollow">spacetelescope.org/images/heic1507a/</a>

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NASA, ESA, Galaxy Zoo Team and W. Keel (University of Alabama, USA)
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Hubble Space Telescope / ESA at https://flickr.com/photos/51268976@N08/16458296783. It was reviewed on 8 December 2020 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0.

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