01-09-2014, 03:35 PM
The Gemini Observatory released the first ever photograph of a distant sun and it's planet a few days ago. Gemini North is on Mauna Kea, Gemini South in Chile:
“After years of development and simulations and testing, it’s incredibly exciting now to be seeing real images and spectra of exoplanets observed with GPI. It’s just gorgeous data,” says Marshall Perrin of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
“The entire exoplanet community is excited for GPI to usher in a whole new era of planet finding.”
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12113
“After years of development and simulations and testing, it’s incredibly exciting now to be seeing real images and spectra of exoplanets observed with GPI. It’s just gorgeous data,” says Marshall Perrin of the Space Telescope Science Institute.
“The entire exoplanet community is excited for GPI to usher in a whole new era of planet finding.”
http://www.gemini.edu/node/12113
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