Gemini News Archive
FLAMINGOS-2 Achieves First Light Milestone
Web Feature | 2009 September 16
As part of on-going acceptance testing, FLAMINGOS-2 (Florida Multi-object Infrared Grism Observing Spectrograph) obtained first light images on the Gemini South telescope.
Gemini Reaches Out to Easter Island (Rapa Nui)
Web Feature | 2009 August 28
We found ourselves in the Mataveri airport, the most isolated in the world, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 3,700 kilometers from continental Chile and nearly equally distant from Gemini North and Gemini South telescopes.
STORM BREWS OVER TITAN'S TROPICAL DESERT
Press Release | 2009 August 7
While far from a tropical rain forest, the equatorial region of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has recently displayed tantalizing evidence that the parched, dry, ultra-frigid desert can support large-scale storms.
HYPERACTIVE GALAXIES IN THE YOUNG UNIVERSE
Press Release | 2009 July 29
Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy.
Surprise Collision on Jupiter Captured by Gemini Telescope
Press Release | 2009 July 23
Jupiter is sporting a glowing bruise after getting unexpectedly whacked by a small solar system object, according to astronomers using the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai`i
Orderly Star Cluster Formation in Chaotic Galaxy Merger
Web Feature | 2009 July 14
An international team of astronomers used GMOS on the Gemini North telescope to observe 16 massive star clusters in the nearest pair of merging galaxies,
Adaptive Optics Reveals Strange Dynamics in Ultra-Compact Star-forming Region
Web Feature | 2009 July 10
Using the Altair adaptive optics system with NIFS on Gemini North, a US/Australian team have obtained unprecedented high-spatial resolution integral field spectra of the Ultra-Compact H II Region K3-50A.
Gemini User Survey 2008
Web Feature | 2009 July 7
Gemini conducted its first user survey at the end of 2008. Principal Investigators (PIs) for all programs from semesters 2006A – 2007B were asked a series of questions as users of one, or both, Gemini telescopes.
Dating young star clusters in starburst galaxy M82
Web Feature | 2009 June 24
The astronomers assembled key data for the largest sample of young extragalactic star clusters to date.
Ultra-deep GNIRS Spectrum Explores Stellar "Birth Control" in Early Universe
Web Feature | 2009 June 8
Using GNIRS, astronomers have obtained an ultra-deep near-infrared spectrum of a massive compact quiescent galaxy at a redshift of about 2.2.
First Gemini/Subaru Science Meeting Sets Future Directions
Web Feature | 2009 May 21
About 200 users and staff of the Gemini and Subaru observatories and the National Gemini Offices participated in the first joint Gemini and Subaru science conference from May 18-22, 2009 at Kyoto University, Japan.
The 18 weeks of Winter on Mauna Kea – 2008-2009
Web Feature | 2009 May 6
The long-term weather loss for Gemini North for the 18 northern hemisphere “winter” weeks December 24, 2008 through April 28 is about 35%.
Gemini Observatory Releases Image of Most Distant Known Object in Universe
Press Release | 2009 April 30
The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe: a Gamma-ray burst (GRB).
A Cool Dwarf in Aquarius
Web Feature | 2009 April 14
An international team has discovered a brown dwarf that will likely set the record as the coolest body ever detected outside our solar system.
No Lithium-6 in Exoplanet Host Stars
Web Feature | 2009 April 6
The observations by bench High-Resolution Optical Spectrograph (bHROS) on Gemini South have established that there is no detectable amount of Lithium-6 in five stars that host extrasolar planets.
Around the World in 80 Telescopes
Press Release | 2009 April 1
On the nights of April 2-3 (3-4 UT) both Gemini telescopes participated in the “Around the World in 80 Telescopes” live, around the world control room webcast.
Gemini Users Meeting
Web Feature | 2009 March 30
Gemini is pleased to announce the 2009 Gemini Users Meeting that will be held at Kyoto University, Kyoto Japan, in conjunction with the Joint Subaru/Gemini Science Conference.
Disappearing Supernovae Stars
Web Feature | 2009 March 17
Justyn Maund and Stephen Smartt present data from the Gemini Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) that confirms the disappearance of the progenitors of two Type II supernovae (SNe).
A Freaky Cosmic Dwarf Pair
Web Feature | 2009 February 25
Recent observations with GMOS-S have revealed a large periodic modulation of SAX J1808.4-3658's quiescent optical emission.
Unveiling Galaxy Bulge Formation with Gemini/GMOS
Web Feature | 2009 February 11
A team of astronomers collected deep long-slit spectroscopy for a sample of eight nearby spiral galaxies using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North 8-meter telescope.
