Gemini North Telescope – Astronomy Now

Astronomers find dual quasars are exceedingly rare

1 September 2020 Astronomy Now

While galaxy collisions and mergers are not rare, merging supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies are far less common.

Gemini North captures mesmerising view of Comet NEOWISE’s rotation

25 August 2020 Astronomy Now

Researchers using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii observe a spiralling outflow of gas from Comet NEOWISE, revealing its rotation.

Astronomers catch the afterglow of a short gamma ray burst

14 July 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers catch the faint afterglow of an extremely remote short gamma ray burst, raising new questions about stellar evolution.

Monster black hole in early universe challenges theorists

25 June 2020 Astronomy Now

Astronomers have found a 1.5-billion-solar-mass black hole dating back to within 700 million years of the Big Bang birth of the cosmos.

Gemini North captures ‘lucky’ shot of Jupiter in all its infrared glory

11 May 2020 Astronomy Now

The Gemini North telescope has captured one of the sharpest views of Jupiter ever taken from the ground, an infrared mosaic revealing new insights into the giant planet’s turbulent atmosphere.

A captivating view of the Heron Galaxy as a gravitational tug of war plays out

13 December 2019 Astronomy Now

Two interacting galaxies, distorted in an ongoing gravitational tug of war, present a captivating vista as observed by the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, taking on the shape of a graceful heron in the northern sky.

Exoplanet traced to home star in binary system

5 September 2019 Astronomy Now

Using a technique known as speckle imaging, astronomers have pinned down the orbit of an exoplanet in a binary star system.

Persistence – and adaptive optics – track Io volcanoes

16 August 2019 Astronomy Now

Using adaptive optics, researchers have been monitoring Jupiter’s tortured moon Io for the past five years, gaining new insights into its persistent volcanism.

Observatories resume operations amid protests

12 August 2019 Astronomy Now

After a month-long shutdown due to protests and demonstrations, observatories in Hawaii hope to resume observations.

Uranus stinks. No, really, it does

26 April 2018 Astronomy Now

Astronomers using a powerful spectrometer attached one of the world’s largest telescopes have discovered that Uranus smells like rotten eggs thanks to hydrogen sulphide in its upper atmosphere.