A giant new telescope opened its Cyclops eye on the Universe today [18 January]. Perched on the desolate summit of Cerro Pachon in the Chilean Andes, the Gemini ... role in the design and ...

The large Gemini North telescope, run by the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s NOIRLab and located on the Maunakea volcano on the island of Hawai‘i, suffered damage last year when the ...

A powerful telescope, perched above the clouds at some 13,800 feet, has snapped a brilliant view of distant galaxies. Astronomers pointed the Gemini North telescope into deep space at the Perseus ...

The twin Gemini telescopes provide almost complete coverage of both the northern and southern skies. The telescope saw first light in 1999 and went into science operations in the year 2000. This award ...

Move over the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Ground-based devices have been catching up in the 13 years since the famous space observatory was launched. A clear view from the surface of the Earth The ...