From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: How do you operate an 8.1-meter telescope? For Gemini South’s 25th anniversary, we’re taking you inside the control room, where operators and astronomers work together to make every observation possible.
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To Celebrate 25 Years In Service, The Gemini Observatory Imaged The Butterfly Nebula To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South telescope to image NGC 6302 — a billowing planetary nebula that resembles...

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Stunning image of RY Tauri, a young star emerging from its natal gas and dust cloud in the Taurus Molecular Cloud, 450 light-years away. The bright central star illuminates a region spanning 2/3 of a light-year. Captured by the Gemini Observatory.

Astronomy Picture from 23/09/2005

Portrait of RY Tauri

Source: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050923.html


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Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4 | Newswise Using observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and operated by NSF NOIRLab, astron...

Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4
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