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A RECENT discovery regarding Centaurus A (NGC5128)1 may have an important bearing on the very local quasar model (see for example, refs 2 to 5). These observers, using the new 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Observatory, have obtained remarkable photographs showing visible filaments extending away radially from the galactic centre and blue starlike images never before seen near the Galaxy. These starlike objects might have been called quasi-stellar had this term not taken on additional connotations since 1963, and this name may indeed be the proper one.
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TERRELL, J. Radio galaxies and local quasars. Nature 258, 132–133 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/258132a0
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