Skip To Content
NSF Logo Search GraphicGuide To Programs GraphicImage Library GraphicSite Map GraphicHelp GraphicPrivacy Policy Graphic
OLPA Header Graphic
 
     
 
  Skip to page content
  The Universe from the Ground Up
Home Symposium NSF Astronomy Facilities Resources Image Gallery
Skip to page content
Gemini
NOAO
NRAO
NSO
SDSS
Miscellaneous
 
 
 
Click on an image to see the high resolution version
Gemini Spies Strong Stellar Gusts in Nearby Massive Star

Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team/Colin Aspin
This image is a “stack” of about 100 images from a time-lapse movie of the early summer sky rising over Gemini North.

Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team
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
The Gemini North and South Collage: The Mauna Kea and Cerro Pachon Enclosures

Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team
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
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.

Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team
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
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
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
Gemini North Observatory with northern startrails.

Photo Credit: Gemini Observatory/GMOS Team
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
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
 
 
     
 

 
National Science Foundation
Office of Legislative and Public Affairs
4201 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia 22230, USA
Tel: 703-292-8070
FIRS: 800-877-8339 | TDD: 703-292-5090
 

NSF Logo Graphic