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The person who first discovered that the "stars" that we now call quasars are in fact billions of light-years away, and not inside our own galaxy, was?

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Answer: Maarten Schmidt

Explanation: Maarten Schmidt, who in 1963 became the first astronomer to identify a quasar, a small, intensely bright object several billion light years away, and in the process upended standard descriptions of the universe and revolutionized ideas about its evolution.

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