[FOR BROAD DISTRIBUTION] Mass exodus from a galaxy David M. Alexander (Durham University, UK) and colleagues have used the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS)

  Please help us to evaluate and assess the possible futures of GeminiFocus by taking our short online survey. The December 2009

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Figure 1. This illustration (presented during the 1995 SPIE conference on astronomical instrumentation) is an early view of the planned Gemini cassegrain instrument cluster

By Doug Simons Perhaps the only thing predictable about nature is its unpredictability. Of course, many natural events are highly predictable, such as the