Two spiral galaxies, locked in a gravitational embrace 200 million light-years from Earth, were captured in extraordinary detail by the Gemini North Telescope on Mauna Kea — and then something rarer than the image itself occurred: Hawaiian high school students gave the cosmic pair a name in their own language. In calling the merging galaxies Nā ʻUhane Māhoe Huki Pū i ke Ola, the students did not merely translate a scientific label but performed an act of cultural knowledge-making, weaving indigenous Hawaiian identity into the permanent record of astronomical discovery. It is a reminder that th