A Congressman from Texas Visits Our National Observatory in Tucson

A Congressman from Texas visits our National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona, and wants to be shown an object in the univer?se with the "biggest darn redshift you ever saw". What type of object should the astronomers show him?

A) a comet in the Kuiper Belt
B) one of the galaxies in our Local Group of galaxies
C) a star with a very low surface temperature
D) a quasar
E) an active galaxy that is in a rich cluster of galaxies just beyond the Local Group

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