SpaceNews

A stellar debut for Gemini Observatory’s online image gallery

Image: Gemini North GMOS image of the “Fireworks Galaxy” NGC 6946 which straddles the boundries between the constellations of Cepheus and Cygnus. Click here for a high resolution photograph. Mauna Kea ...
CNN

First images from the largest camera ever built reveal millions of galaxies

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Smithsonian Magazine

Hackers Target Telescopes, Forcing Them to Pause Operations

Gemini South on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile (left) and Gemini North on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i (right). Gemini / NSF / AURA Hackers have launched an apparent cyberattack on the ...
The New York Times

Vera Rubin Scientists Reveal Telescope’s First Images

Scenes of nebulas in the Milky Way, a cluster of galaxies and thousands of new asteroids are a teaser of how the U.S.-funded observatory on a mountain in Chile will transform astronomy. In this image ...