Pōniuāʻena, the second most distant quasar ever discovered (IMAGE)
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An artist's impression of the quasar Pōniuāʻena. Astronomers discovered this, the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), Programs of NSF's NOIRLab. It is the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name. In honor of its discovery from Maunakea, a sacred mountain revered in the Hawaiian culture, the quasar J1007+2115 was given the Hawaiian name Pōniuāʻena, meaning "unseen spinning source of creation, surrounded with brilliance" in the Hawaiian language.
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International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Marenfeld
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