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In the we-call-them-as-we-see-them tradition among astrophysicists, these objects were dubbed Quasi-StellarRadioSources, or more affectionately, "quasars."
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Astronomers soon were calling this new class of objects -of which 3C 273 is the granddaddy and archetype - quasi-stellarradiosources.