CosmoView Episode 6: Pōniuāʻena, the second most distant quasar ever discovered
Astronomers have discovered the second most distant quasar ever found, using the international Gemini Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO). It is also the first quasar to receive an indigenous Hawaiian name, Pōniuāʻena.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Pete Marenfeld, ESA/Hubble, NASA, M. Kornmesser. A Special Thanks to A Hua He Inoa and the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaiʻi Music: zero-project — The Lower Dungeons (zero-project.gr).
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2015a |
| Release date: | June 25, 2020, 6 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2015 |
| Duration: | 01 m 25 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
About the Object
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
