Category: For Everyone
- Date: 25 Mar 2016
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Waipahu High School student Diana Castaneda has been selected to compete in the Hawai’i State Science Fair thanks to her project titled, “Stardust and Black Holes: Star Formation Rates of Galaxies.” Diana’s mentor, Gemini Science Fellow Andreea Petric, began working with Diana thanks to an outreach program last summer at the International Astronomical Union (IAU) meeting […]
- Date: 7 Mar 2016
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Journey Through the Universe 2016 During the week of March 7-11, 83 observatory professionals consisting of astronomers, engineers, astronomy educators, and other observatory staff, will bring their passion for science into hundreds of local Hawai‘i Island classrooms as a part of Gemini Observatory’s flagship annual outreach program, Journey Through the Universe. Now in its 12th […]
- Date: 15 Feb 2016
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Benjamin Courtney-Barrer, a Gemini South intern from the Australian National University, is immersed in Flamingos-2 data on a Milky Way massive star cluster. His goal: to determine the cluster’s age and ultimately its origin. Benjamin’s mentor, assistant astronomer Morten Andersen explains that these data are being combined with photometry from deep near-infrared imaging for the individual […]
- Date: 12 Feb 2016
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Although it is the closest giant elliptical galaxy to Earth, at a distance of about 10 million light years, scientists know very little about Maffei 1 as opposed to the photogenic Centaurus A, the second closest elliptical galaxy to us. Maffei 1, located in the same line of sight as the galactic disc of the […]
- Date: 2 Feb 2016
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Gemini at Onizuka Day Gemini Observatory and the local community celebrated the legacy of Big Island Astronaut Ellison Onizuka last Saturday, January 30th during the annual Onizuka Day event at the University of Hawai‘i at Hilo. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the NASA Challenger disaster that took the lives of the space shuttle […]
