Artist illustration of a yellow star with rungs around it. to the tight of the star is a orange cloud.

Massive Cloud With Metallic Winds Discovered Orbiting Mystery Object

Astronomers using the Gemini South telescope achieve unprecedented detection of vaporized metals within a dusty, gaseous cloud during rare stellar ...
Bright reds, yellows and orange points of lights are scattered on a black background Some are obviously galaxies with small pinwheel shape and others are just points of light. In the Center is a bright blue glowing object next to a fainter orange one.

Bright Blue Cosmic Outbursts Likely Caused by Large Black Holes Shredding Massive Companions

In 2024, astronomers discovered the brightest Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) ever observed. LFBOTs are extremely bright flashes of ...
a bright light is in the center of the image is surrounded by a greenish glow on a dark black background.

Gemini North Color Images Reveal Greenish Glow of Comet 3I/ATLAS

Gemini North captured new images of Comet 3I/ATLAS after it reemerged from behind the Sun on its path out of ...
Gemini South Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Stunning Snapshot of the Butterfly Nebula

Gemini South Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Stunning Snapshot of the Butterfly Nebula

To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Chile voted for the Gemini South ...
Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lani: An Image to Celebrate Gemini North’s 25th Anniversary features a red-orange background dotted by stars. Tall dark pillars of gas and dust rise in the foreground.

Students in Hawai‘i Name Mesmerizing Image Ua ʻŌhiʻa Lani for the International Gemini Observatory’s 25th Anniversary

To celebrate 25 years since the completion of the International Gemini Observatory, students in Hawai‘i voted for the Gemini North ...
A glowing ball with a gold halo and tail streaks to the right in the center of this image. The black background is cover with rainbow colored streaks throughout the image.

Gemini South Captures Growing Tail of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS During Educational Observing Program

Astronomers and students working together through a unique educational initiative have obtained a striking new image of the growing tail ...
Betelgeuse and Its Stellar Companion in Orion

Gemini North Discovers Long-Predicted Stellar Companion of Betelgeuse

Astronomers have discovered a companion star in an incredibly tight orbit around Betelgeuse using the NASA and U.S. National Science ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS Seen With Gemini North

Gemini North Observes Comet 3I/ATLAS

Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
Gemini North and Gemini South Capture the Fading Light of SN 2025kg. Three panel image shows how the light faded with time.

International Gemini Observatory and SOAR Discover Surprising Link Between Fast X-ray Transients and the Explosive Death of Massive Stars

Using a combination of telescopes, including the International Gemini Observatory, funded in part by the U.S. National Science Foundation and ...
black background with multicolor streaks . One very bright streak is top right.

Gemini South Observes Shape and Origin of Near-Earth Asteroid 2024 YR4

Using observations from the Gemini South telescope in Chile, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the ...
Artist’s Illustration of a Sun from the viewpoint of a red planet.

Planetary System Found Around Nearest Single Star

Using in part the Gemini North telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, partly funded by the U.S. National ...
Artistic representation of the largest radio jet in the early Universe

Gemini North Teams Up With LOFAR to Reveal Largest Radio Jet Ever Seen in the Early Universe

From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain massive black holes at their centers. The gas and ...