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Stories about: Gemini observatory

First Planet to Circle “Normal” Star Found Hawaii's Gemini North telescope helped capture the image of a planet orbiting a star which resembles our Sun. This is a historical event for astronomers.Ten years ago, 1RXS J160929.1-210524 was identified by Thomas Preibisch and his team as a 5 million-year old pre-main sequence star located about 470 light year... 20 September 2008 04:32 GMT UK Astronomers Booted From the Gemini Observatory UK astronomers just lost their sits in the best northern observatory that they had access to. Due to funding cuts, the board that administers the Gemini Observatory decided that it is best that the UK should be restricted from having direct access to the telescope. Thus in December last year, the UK's Science an... 29 January 2008 05:41 GMT