  Coherent Raman Effect on Incoherent Light (CREIL), shifts the frequencies of
normally incoherent light without any blurring of the images or altering the
order of the spectra. CREIL operates in gases having quadrupolar resonances in
the megaherz range, and it is easily confused with Doppler effects. When CREIL
is taken into account, the propagation of light in cosmic low pressure gases
involves a complex combination of absorptions and frequency shifts. Current
star theory predicts very bright accreting neutron stars. These should be
small, very hot objects surrounded by dirty atomic hydrogen. CREIL predicts
spectra for these stars that have exactly the characteristics found in the
spectra of the quasars. The intrinsic redshifting in the extended photosphere
of Quasars as defined by CREIL events drastically reduces both the size and
distance to quasars, and clearly identifies the missing neutron stars as
quasar-like objects. A full interpretation of quasar spectra does not require
jets, dark matter, a variation of the fine structure constant, or an early
synthesis of iron. CREIL is useful in explaining other astrophysical problems,
such as redshifting proportional to the path of light through the corona of the
Sun. CREIL radiation transfers may explain the blueshifting of radio signals
from Pioneer 10 and 11.
