Sep 4, 2025 by News Staff

Using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini South telescope at NSF’s International Gemini Observatory in the Chilean Andes, astronomers...

Apr 14, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on the Gemini South telescope have determined that the recently-discovered near-Earth asteroid...

Feb 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the Gemini South telescope, astronomers from NSF’s NOIRLab have imaged a beautiful nebula around the young open cluster NGC 2040. The nebula encasing...

Feb 3, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrograph (IGRINS) instrument on the Gemini South telescope have examined the atmosphere of WASP-121b,...

May 1, 2024 by News Staff

Using the Gemini High-resolution Optical SpecTrograph (GHOST), which is attached to the 8.1-m Gemini South telescope at Cerro Pachón, Chile, astronomers...

Feb 6, 2024 by News Staff

NGC 4753’s prominent and complex network of dust lanes that twist around its galactic nucleus define its ‘peculiar’ classification and are the likely...

Oct 26, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

A stunning new image from the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, shows NGC 7727 —...

Oct 6, 2023 by Enrico de Lazaro

Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs) are a rare class of events whose origins are poorly understood. The prototypical example of LFBOTs is AT2018cow,...

Jul 13, 2023 by News Staff

This new image from the Gemini South telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, shows the nearly symmetrical...

Jun 22, 2023 by News Staff

Unlike most gamma-ray bursts, which are caused by exploding massive stars or the chance mergers of neutron stars, a long gamma-ray burst event dubbed GRB...

Oct 16, 2022 by News Staff

GRB 221009A, a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022, is one of the nearest and possibly the most-energetic gamma-ray burst ever observed. It occurred...