June 29, 2011 - Star Advertiser
An international team of astronomers using telescopes on Mauna Kea have discovered the most distant and earliest-known quasar, a bright, starlike object believed to have formed just after the universe was created.
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The infrared sky survey was conducted at the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope and confirmed by observations with the Gemini North telescope, both on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The results are in the June 30 issue of the Journal Nature.
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