A close view of the interior of the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrographs (GMOS) in the Gemini South telescope in Chile. The…

Mounting the NEWFIRM dewar onto its Lab Cart on the Blanco M floor.

Removing the four smaller NEWFIRM crates from the transport truck by forklift after the instrument arrived on Cerro Tololo…

NEWFIRM dewar in the Blanco Instrumentation Lab with the team. The full team was J. Briones, Y. Jure, E. Parkes, D. Salazar, K…

A snapshot from an animated all-sky map with all science observations made by the Gemini North and South telescopes in 2021.

Gemini South on the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile (left) and Gemini North on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i (right)

In May 2019 SpaceX launched its first batch of 60 Starlink communication satellites, which surprised astronomers and lay people…

Juan Andrade, CTIO Mechanics, prepares the tube of CO2 before the cleaning process of the primary mirror of the Víctor M. Blanco…