For the first time, observations with the Gemini Observatory clearly reveal an extreme, large-scale galactic outflow that brings the cosmic dinner to a halt.
AstroDay Chile, which started as a mere handful of booths and kiosks from AURA observatories in 2005, has grown to host more than 17 institutions from Chile and beyond.
A new era in high-resolution astronomy began with the successful propagation of a 5-star sodium laser guide star "constellation" in the skies over Cerro Pachon in Chile.
After more than a year of studying the 2009 collision with Jupiter, a team's results indicate that the colliding body was rocky and not an icy comet like the last known collision with Jupiter.
On the night of January 21-22, 2011 the Gemini South 50-watt laser began on-sky engineering testing and commissioning with its successful propagation into the sky over the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile.
Astronomers have measured the most massive known black hole in our cosmic neighborhood by combining data from a giant telescope in Hawai'i and a smaller telescope in Texas.
New work led by Andrea Dupree (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) now shows direct evidence for helium abundance variations—a sign of multiple histories—in the bright globular cluster Omega Centauri.
On December 6-8, 2010 about a dozen representatives from AURA converged at Gemini’s base facility in Hilo, Hawai‘i to discuss a broad range of topics related to diversity in the workforce.
The composite image, taken on Nov. 18, 2010 by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, shows a belt that had previously vanished in Jupiter's atmosphere is now reappearing.
The discovery of an unusual stellar system combined with Gemini North NIRI observations has allowed astronomers to confirm the spectral type of a cool methane dwarf and determine its temperature, mass, and age with confidence.
Phillip Cargile (Vanderbilt University) and team take advantage of the time-dependent destruction of lithium in young stars to measure the age of the open cluster Blanco 1.
A pristine new coat of protected silver now glistens on the Gemini South primary mirror (M1) as part of a routine shut-down on Cerro Pachón in Chile.
A team of astronomers have discovered what is currently the coldest star-like object. The object, called UGPS J0722-05, is also of particular interest because it is one of our closest neighbors.
Amateur astronomers used high-speed, video-monitoring equipment to capture a fireball streaking through the atmosphere of Jupiter. Shortly thereafter, the world’s largest telescopes examined Jupiter for debris left behind.
Astronomers have used the Thermal-Region Camera Spectrograph (T-ReCS) on the Gemini South telescope to obtain the first resolved image of the debris disk around the 12 million year old star HD191089.
Recent observations with the Near-Infrared Imager (NIRI) on the Gemini North telescope have revealed the presence of a large circumstellar disk around the young embedded protostar L1527.
Cristina Ramos Almeida and collaborators obtained deep imaging data using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) at the Gemini South telescope to study the morphologies of a complete sample of 46 intermediate redshift (0.05<z<0.7) PRGs.
Using NICI on the Gemini-South telescope in Chile, an international team led by University of Hawai‘i astronomers have directly imaged a brown dwarf in a tight orbit around a young Sun-like star.
The first two accepted papers based on observations with NICI at Gemini South include discoveries of several previously unknown companions in binary star systems as well as the study of the age distributions of stars in the outer regions of the galaxy M83.
A planet only about eight times the mass of Jupiter has been confirmed orbiting a Sun-like star at over 300 times farther from the star than the Earth is from our Sun. The newly confirmed planet is the least massive planet known to orbit at such a great distance from its host star.