The Gemini South Observatory, located on top of a mountain in Chile, captured a nebula shaped like a one-winged butterfly fluttering through a nearby star-forming region. The nebula is powered ...

Both were obtained on December 5, 2004, by the Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón in Chile, and will join the more than 100 images already available in the observatory's Image Gallery.

The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that the Gemini Observatory is the recipient of a multi-million ... and programming for Gemini's host communities in Hawai'i and Chile. "With this ...