3C 279

Infobox Galaxy
name = 3C 279


epoch = J2000
ra = RA|12|56|11.1cite web
title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
work=Results for 3C 279
url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/
accessdate=2006-12-04]
dec = DEC|-05|47|22
constellation name =
z = 0.5362 ± 0.0004
dist_ly =
type =
appmag_v = 17.8
size_v =
notes =
names =

3C 279 is a optically violent variable quasar.cite journal
author=J. R. Webb, M. T. Carini, S. Clements, S. Fajardo, P. P. Gombola, R. J. Leacock, A. C. Sadun, A. G. Smith
title=The 1987-1990 optical outburst of the OVV quasar 3C 279
journal=Astronomical Journal
year=1990
volume=100
pages=1452–1456
url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1990AJ....100.1452W | doi=10.1086/115609] It was the first quasar in which superluminal motion was detected.

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