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| 3C 273, the object number 273 in the third Cambridge Catalogue of radio sources, | |
| is a quasar located in the constellation Virgo and the brightest and at least one of | |
| nearest of all quasars (acronym for "QUASi-stellAR radio sources"), i.e. it appears stellar in telescopes. | |
| It was the first quasar ever to be identified. | |
| The quasar has a large-scale visible jet, which measures ~200 kly (60 kpc : kiloparsec) long. | |
| Its distance from Earth is 2,000,000.0 kly (kly : kilo-light-year). | |
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