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Gemini Spies Strong Stellar Gusts in Nearby Massive Star
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team/Colin Aspin |
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This image is a “stack” of about 100 images from a time-lapse movie of the early summer sky rising over Gemini North.
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Early Gemini North Results Feature Super Star Clusters, Details of Circumstellar Disks
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team/National Science Foundation/University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy |
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The Gemini North and South Collage: The Mauna Kea and Cerro Pachon Enclosures
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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This 50 second exposure was made from the “observing floor” of the Gemini North telescope while moonlight shined on the dome and top end of the telescope.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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An interior shot from a catwalk on the Gemini enclosure (dome) showing the reflection of the early twilight sky on the mirror and the colors of sunset in the open vents.
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This time exposure shows the stars of the South Celestial Pole circling over Gemini South with the Large Magellanic Cloud visible as a faint ‘smudge” at the upper left.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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Hickson Compact Group 87: One of the primary galaxies of the HCG87 group is an edge-on galaxy with dust lanes, which is a beautiful example of a box/peanut shaped central bulge that the eye perceives as an X-shaped structure.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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This “First-Light” image was obtained with a state-of-the-art instrument called the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini North Telescope on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea. The image shows the large galaxy in Pisces called NGC 628 (or Messier 74) which has been called the “Perfect Spiral Galaxy” due to its nearly idea form, which is clearly revealed in this image.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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Gemini North Observatory with northern startrails.
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The image is centered on a very distant quasar (green stellar object indicated) which is at a distance of about 10 billions light years. Only a few stars belonging to our Milky Way are visible on this image as faint sharp red dots. All of the other objects, from the large fuzzy blue/white patches to the elongated yellowish cigar shaped objects, to the featureless faint red blotches are galaxies, thousands of them, each consisting of billions of stars.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |
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Image of the central region of the Trifid Nebula (M20 in the Messier Catalogue) taken by the Gemini North 8-meter Telescope on Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, June 5, 2002.
Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team |