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Michael Strauss, Sloan Digital Sky Survey astronomer from Princeton University, and Xiaohui Fan's faculty advisor:

Xiaohui and I were in the basement of Peyton Hall at Princeton, operating the 3.5-meter-diameter telescope at Apache Point Observatory over the Internet to follow up on quasar candidates from the Sky Survey data. It was 1:30 a.m. on Thanksgiving morning, and we only had about half an hour of observing time left. Xiaohui suggested observing one of our last promising high-redshift quasar candidates before we finished up. As soon as we saw the spectrum, we knew we had a record-breaking quasar.

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