Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Weather report for a distant 'brown dwarf'? No problem: partly cloudy

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0107/Weather-report-for-a-distant-brown-dwarf-No-problem-partly-cloudy

January 7, 2014 - The Christian Science Monitor
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Such efforts have received a boost from a new instrument bolted to the back of Gemini South, an 8-meter telescope located high in Chile's Atacama Desert. The new camera, the Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), is designed to overcome the twin hurdles of the distorting effects of Earth's atmosphere and the blinding effect of a host star's light to spot and characterize Jupiter-class planets at Jupiter-like distances from their host stars.
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