Tag Archive for 'Gemini Planet Imager'

These images of dusty disks around young massive stars were taken with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) instrument on the Gemini South telescope, the International Gemini Observatory. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / E. Rich, Michigan University.

Gemini Planet Imager Detects Protoplanetary Disks around Young Stars

Jun 17, 2022 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager instrument at the Gemini South telescope in Chile have imaged a sample of 44 bright Herbig Ae/Be and T-Tauri...

This is an artist's impression of the young exoplanet Beta Pictoris b and its parent star. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada / N. Risinger, skysurvey.org.

Gemini Planet Imager Captures Best View Yet of Exoplanet Moving around its Sun

Sep 22, 2015 by News Staff

A series of images taken with the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the Gemini South telescope in Chile shows an extrasolar gas giant called Beta Pictoris...

An artistic conception of the young Jovian planet 51 Eridani b. Image credit: Danielle Futselaar / Franck Marchis / SETI Institute.

51 Eridani b: Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Discovered 97 Light-Years Away

Aug 14, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager have discovered a young Jupiter-like planet orbiting a nearby star known as 51 Eridani. An artistic conception...

Images of HD 115600 showing a bright nearly edge-on debris ring located just beyond a Pluto-like distance to the star. Image credit: Thayne Currie et al.

Gemini Planet Imager Spots Kuiper Belt-like Dust Ring around HD 115600

May 27, 2015 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini Planet Imager at the Gemini South telescope in Chile have identified a disc-shaped bright ring of dust around a nearby young...

Gemini Planet Imager captured this first light image of Beta Pictoris b, a planet orbiting the star Beta Pictoris. The star, Beta Pictoris, is blocked in this image by a mask. Image credit: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Gemini Planet Imager Zooms in on Exoplanet Beta Pictoris b

May 16, 2014 by News Staff

Astronomers using Gemini Planet Imager have captured an amazingly clear and bright image of a gas giant orbiting Beta Pictoris. Gemini Planet Imager captured...