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A new quasar discovered using DESI as it appeared nearly 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Big Bang Jinyi Yang, Steward Observatory/University of Arizona A new quasar discovered using DESI gives a glimpse of the universe as it was nearly 13 billion years ago, less than a billion years after the Big Bang. This is the most distant quasar discovered with DESI to date, from a DESI very high-redshift quasar selection. The background shows this quasar and its surroundings in the DESI Legacy imaging surveys.