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Interstellar objects are visitors from solar systems beyond our own, and the third ever such object, known as 3I/ATLAS, has ...
Given 3I/ATLAS' highly eccentric orbit, this will be its one and only visit to our solar system, as its trajectory does not ...
Comet 3I/ATLAS is expected to make its closest pass by the Sun on Oct. 30, when it will fly 130 million miles inside the ...
The Gemini North telescope in Hawaii recently snapped a close-up of the comet that's captured the world’s attention.
Using the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii, astronomers have captured an image of comet 3I/ATLAS, an interstellar object that ...
Scientists are observing a unique interstellar comet, 3I/ATLAS, currently passing through our solar system. This is only the third such object ever detected.
It's out of this world. Or, more accurately, this solar system.On July 1, astronomers discovered an object near the orbit of Jupiter that was somewhat peculiar. It had a strange orbit, one that didn't ...
T he Gemini North Telescope, one half of the International Gemini Observatory, studies the skies above Maunakea, a mountain in Hawai'i. Its twin, the Gemini South Telescope, is based in the Chilean ...
Gemini North, part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, is back observing the night sky following the repair and refurbishment of its primary mirror. The telescope ...
Gemini North, part of the International Gemini Observatory operated by the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, is back observing the night sky following the repair and refurbishment of its ...
The Gemini North telescope has recently been studying more than 100 of these eroding dwarf galaxies, seeing how they lose their outer stars and gas to become ultra-compact dwarf galaxies or UCDs.