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Watching an Exoplanet in Motion Around a Distant Star

Watching an Exoplanet in Motion Around a Distant Star

September 13, 2015

A team of astronomers has given us our best view yet of an exoplanet moving in its orbit around a...

Gemini Installs Record-Breaking Rooftop PV Solar Panel System

Gemini Installs Record-Breaking Rooftop PV Solar Panel System

September 9, 2015

Continuing Gemini Observatory’s commitment to the positive stewardship of our planet, Gemini leads in the use of renewable energy sources...

Gemini-Discovered World is Most Like Jupiter

Gemini-Discovered World is Most Like Jupiter

August 12, 2015

Going beyond the discovery and imaging of a young Jupiter, astronomers using the Gemini Observatory's new Planet Imager (GPI) have...

NGC 2346: A Cosmic Butterfly’s Delicate Wings

NGC 2346: A Cosmic Butterfly’s Delicate Wings

July 8, 2015

NOAO scientists, using the Gemini Observatory 8-meter telescope in Chile, have obtained the highest resolution image ever obtained for the...

Seeing Where Stars Collide

Seeing Where Stars Collide

June 14, 2015

Using the advanced adaptive optics system GeMS, on the Gemini South telescope, astronomers have imaged a beautiful stellar jewel-box –...

Far From Home

Far From Home

March 2, 2015

Like the lost little puppy that wanders too far from home, astronomers have found an unusually small and distant group...

The Gemini Planet Imager Produces Stunning Observations In Its First Year

The Gemini Planet Imager Produces Stunning Observations In Its First Year

January 5, 2015

Stunning exoplanet images and spectra from the first year of science operations with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) were featured...

First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects

First Surface Observations of Oort Cloud Objects

November 6, 2014

Astronomers are announcing today the discovery of two unusual objects in comet-like orbits that originate in the Oort cloud but...

Smallest Known Galaxy with a Supermassive Black Hole

Smallest Known Galaxy with a Supermassive Black Hole

September 15, 2014

A University of Utah astronomer and his colleagues discovered that an ultracompact dwarf galaxy harbors a supermassive black hole –...

Planet-like Object May Have Spent Its Youth as Hot as a Star

Planet-like Object May Have Spent Its Youth as Hot as a Star

August 4, 2014

Astronomers have discovered an extremely cool object that could have a particularly diverse history—although it is now as cool as...

Extreme Volcanism

Extreme Volcanism

July 31, 2014

During the middle of 2013, Jupiter’s moon Io came alive with volcanism. Now, an image from the Gemini Observatory captures...

Odd planet

Odd planet

May 11, 2014

An international team led by Université de Montréal researchers has discovered and photographed a new planet 155 light years from...

First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed By Gemini And Keck Observatories

First Potentially Habitable Earth-Sized Planet Confirmed By Gemini And Keck Observatories

April 16, 2014

The first Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting within the habitable zone of another star has been confirmed by observations with both the...

Sakurai’s Object: Stellar Evolution in Real Time

Sakurai’s Object: Stellar Evolution in Real Time

April 1, 2014

Stellar lifetimes are measured in billions of years, so changes in their appearance rarely take place on a human timescale....

Gemini Planet Imager First Light!

Gemini Planet Imager First Light!

January 5, 2014

After nearly a decade of development, construction, and testing, the world’s most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets...

Fast, Furious, Refined

Fast, Furious, Refined

November 25, 2013

Gemini observations support an unexpected discovery in the galaxy Messier 101. A relatively small black hole (20-30 times the mass...

Astronomers Celebrate “Celestial Pollution” From Perseid Meteor Shower

Astronomers Celebrate “Celestial Pollution” From Perseid Meteor Shower

August 8, 2013

“Celestial Pollution” from meteors like this weekend’s Perseid Meteor Shower sprinkle sodium high up in our atmosphere and give astronomers...

Poised for Discovery

Poised for Discovery

August 5, 2013

Gemini Observatory’s latest instrument, a powerful infrared camera and spectrograph at Gemini South, reveals its potential in a series of...

Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers

Revolutionary Instrument Delivers a Sharper Universe to Astronomers

July 1, 2013

A unique new instrument at Gemini South in Chile takes the removal of atmospheric distortions (using adaptive optics technology) to...

Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars

Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars

June 26, 2013

Gemini Observatory’s Planet-Finding Campaign finds that, around many types of stars, distant gas-giant planets are rare and prefer to cling...

Gemini Observatory Captures Comet ISON Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destiny with the Sun

Gemini Observatory Captures Comet ISON Hurtling Toward Uncertain Destiny with the Sun

May 28, 2013

Images of Comet ISON over the past three months hint at coming changes as comet speeds into the inner solar...

Gemini Confirms The Closest Star System Found In A Century

Gemini Confirms The Closest Star System Found In A Century

March 7, 2013

A pair of newly discovered stars is the third-closest star system to the Sun, according to a paper that will...

Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details To Light In Stellar Nursery

Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Brings Remarkable Details To Light In Stellar Nursery

January 7, 2013

A new image released today reveals how Gemini Observatory's most advanced adaptive optics (AO) system will help astronomers study the...

All-Clear Asteroid Will Miss Earth in 2040

All-Clear Asteroid Will Miss Earth in 2040

December 20, 2012

Potential asteroid collision in 2040 is a non-threat based on new Gemini Observatory data.

Poetry in Motion

Poetry in Motion

October 16, 2012

When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed.

Sharpest-ever Ground-based Images of Pluto and Charon: Proves a Powerful Tool for Exoplanet Discoveries

Sharpest-ever Ground-based Images of Pluto and Charon: Proves a Powerful Tool for Exoplanet Discoveries

September 24, 2012

Despite being infamously demoted from its status as a major planet, Pluto (and its largest companion Charon) recently posed as...

Multi-Tasking Supernova

Multi-Tasking Supernova

August 28, 2012

Nature hath no fury like a dying star – and astronomers couldn’t be happier…

Astronomers Reassured by Record-breaking Star Formation in Huge Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers Reassured by Record-breaking Star Formation in Huge Galaxy Cluster

August 12, 2012

Until now, evidence for what astronomers suspect happens at the cores of the largest galaxy clusters has been uncomfortably scarce....

Going Out Of Business

Going Out Of Business

June 28, 2012

That surprise you feel when your favorite store turns off its lights, locks up its doors, and suddenly, for no...

Celestial Tapestry is Born of Uncertain Parentage

Celestial Tapestry is Born of Uncertain Parentage

May 13, 2012

A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71)....