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Number 193 (Story #2), September 6, 1994 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

A QUASAR-LIKE OBJECT has been discovered in our galaxy. Using the Very Large Array radio telescope to monitor emissions from GRS 1915+105, astronomers have observed jets of matter shooting out at a velocity close to the speed of light. Somewhat resembling the enigmatic object SS433, discovered in the 1970s, the higher-energy GRS 1915+105 is also thought to be a double-star system. (Nature, 1 September.)