The 2010 Winners are...
First prize:
Runners-up:
Congratulations to all the winners!!
Astronomy Club of the Sydney Girls High School.
Kieran Cerato and the Forest Lake College Astronomy Club.
Benjamin Graham of Whitefriars College.
Check back here for more updates as the new Gemini images are taken for the contest.
A few of the Gemini Observatory's most spectacular recent results:
- Cosmic Couples
Two recent announcements based on images from Gemini's high-resolution infrared camera, NICI, are revealing the diversity of stellar systems in our Galaxy. First, NICI resolved a binary star system into a quadruple, finding that each of the two components in the binary wasn't a single object, but was actually made up of a pair of stars. Second, the NICI Planet-Finding Campaign discovered a brown dwarf around another star, with an orbit smaller than Neptune's orbit around the Sun. The presence of the brown dwarf, a failed star 36 times more massive than Jupiter, would have a huge impact on whether planets could be built in that star system. - Taking a Narrow View of a Lopsided Galaxy
The nearby galaxy, NGC 1313, is undergoing an immense burst of star formation, driven by a mysterious expanding "superbubble" of hot gas. - Canadian Student Imaging Contest Shines
An exciting new picture of the Owl Nebula was unveiled as the winner of Canada's contest for high school students. - The Many Colors of Star Birth
Gemini captured a picture of a massive star in the early stages of its formation. The image was produced by GMOS-N, the Northern counterpart to the instrument used for the contest. - Revealing the Explosive Heart of Eta Carinae
Gemini's newest instrument, NICI, was used to image one of the most dynamic stars in the Milky Way: Eta Carinae.
Australian Gemini Office, ausgo -@- aao.gov.au
The Australian Gemini Office (AusGO) is operated by the Australian
Astronomical Observatory (