http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/01/07/gemini_planet_imager_new_camera_to_photograph_alien_worlds.html
January 7, 2014 - The Slate Magazine
Get ready to see a lot of exoplanets images pretty soon: The Gemini Planet Imager is online and ready to seek out strange new worlds.
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Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Super-sensitive Camera Captures a Direct Image of an Exoplanet
http://www.universetoday.com/107854/super-sensitive-camera-captures-a-direct-image-of-an-exoplanet/
January 7, 2014 - Universe Today
The world’s newest and most powerful exoplanet imaging instrument, the recently-installed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope, has captured its first-light infrared image of an exoplanet: Beta Pictoris b
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which orbits the star Beta Pictoris, the second-brightest star in the
southern constellation Pictor. The planet is pretty obvious in the image
above as a bright clump of pixels just to the lower right of the star
in the middle (which is physically covered by a small opaque disk to
block glare.) But that cluster of pixels is really a distant planet 63
light-years away and several times more massive — as well as 60% larger —
than Jupiter!
January 7, 2014 - Universe Today
The world’s newest and most powerful exoplanet imaging instrument, the recently-installed Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) on the 8-meter Gemini South telescope, has captured its first-light infrared image of an exoplanet: Beta Pictoris b
,
which orbits the star Beta Pictoris, the second-brightest star in the
southern constellation Pictor. The planet is pretty obvious in the image
above as a bright clump of pixels just to the lower right of the star
in the middle (which is physically covered by a small opaque disk to
block glare.) But that cluster of pixels is really a distant planet 63
light-years away and several times more massive — as well as 60% larger —
than Jupiter!Gemini Planet Imager ‘First Light’ Photos Released, Shows Planet Orbiting Beta Pictoris In ‘Exquisite Detail’
http://www.ibtimes.com/gemini-planet-imager-first-light-photos-released-shows-planet-orbiting-beta-pictoris-exquisite
January 7, 2014 - International Business Times
The first photos from the world’s most advanced instrument for analyzing distant planets and stars have emerged.
The Gemini Planet Imager, an instrument 10 years in the making, is the first fully optimized planet imager deployed on one of the world’s largest telescopes -- the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile. The $25 million camera had its “first light” on Nov. 11, 2013. Images from this event were released on Wednesday.
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January 7, 2014 - International Business Times
The first photos from the world’s most advanced instrument for analyzing distant planets and stars have emerged.
The Gemini Planet Imager, an instrument 10 years in the making, is the first fully optimized planet imager deployed on one of the world’s largest telescopes -- the 8-meter Gemini South telescope in Chile. The $25 million camera had its “first light” on Nov. 11, 2013. Images from this event were released on Wednesday.
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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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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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Alien blue dot spotted: Imager opens new window on exoplanets
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/alien-blue-dot-spotted-imager-opens-new-window-exoplanets-2D11874050
January 7, 2014 - NBC News
The first images from the world's most advanced instrument for seeing planets beyond our solar system show a pale blue dot around an alien star, a faraway dusty disk and a closer-in target: the surface of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
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January 7, 2014 - NBC News
The first images from the world's most advanced instrument for seeing planets beyond our solar system show a pale blue dot around an alien star, a faraway dusty disk and a closer-in target: the surface of Europa, an icy moon of Jupiter.
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Out-Of-This-World First Light Images Emerge from Gemini Planet Imager
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140107170907.htm
January 7, 2014 - Science Daily
After nearly a decade of development, construction and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets orbiting around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting light from distant worlds.
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January 7, 2014 - Science Daily
After nearly a decade of development, construction and testing, the world's most advanced instrument for directly imaging and analyzing planets orbiting around other stars is pointing skyward and collecting light from distant worlds.
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New Exoplanet Imager Snaps 1st Photos of Alien Worlds
http://www.space.com/24188-exoplanet-imager-first-light-aas223.html
January 7, 2014 - Space.com
Astronomers have detected nearly 1,000 planets outside of our own solar system, but little is known about their composition. Now, the Gemini Observatory's Planet Imager enables scientists to image exoplanets directly.
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January 7, 2014 - Space.com
Astronomers have detected nearly 1,000 planets outside of our own solar system, but little is known about their composition. Now, the Gemini Observatory's Planet Imager enables scientists to image exoplanets directly.
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