•Quasars were discovered in the early 1960’s.
•Astronomers first noticed these guys had a lot of light emitted in the radio bands.
•They looked like stars but didn’t seem to be stars… they had strange spectra*
•So because they looked like stars, and had radio loud spectra, they were named, Quasi-Stellar Radio Sources.
(Kinda-Starlike Radio things.) Or….. Quasars!
•Today we are capable of actually seeing the host galaxies of quasars….