Multiple Choice
When, by whom, and by what means was the first quasar detected?
A) in 1944 by Reber with a small radio telescope
B) in 1951 by Baade and Minkowski with the 200-inch Hale telescope on Mount Palomar
C) in 1992 by Zeeman with the Hubble Space Telescope
D) in 1955 by a British team using the Cambridge radio telescope
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