Spitfire was Equestria's first, and only, astronaut. She had been deemed lost in space nearly a year ago. Her voice logs have finally been recovered. Equestria falls silent as they are played over the radio for all to hear, breath held. This event was later known as The Great Silence.

Qua·sar - /ˈkwāˌzär/ - noun 

• a massive and extremely remote celestial object, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy, and typically having a starlike image in a telescope. It has been suggested that quasars contain massive black holes and may represent a stage in the evolution of some galaxies.

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