The Gemini Planet Imager: Worlds Made Visible

http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2014/20140113-gemini-planet-imager-macintosh-marchis.html

January 13, 2014 - Planetary Society
Radio show on GPI with guests Bruce Macintosh and Franck Marchis.

Captan desde Chile la imagen directa de un exoplaneta

http://www.biobiochile.cl/2014/01/09/captan-desde-chile-la-imagen-directa-de-un-exoplaneta.shtml

January 9, 2014 - biobiochile.cl
El instrumento astronómico Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), instalado en el telescopio Gemini Sur en la Región de Coquimbo, logró captar la imagen directa de un exoplaneta llamado Beta Pictoris b.
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Se inicia una nueva era para los cazadores de exoplanetas

http://espacioprofundo.es/2014/01/07/se-inicia-una-nueva-era-para-los-cazadores-de-exoplanetas/

January 7, 2014 - Espacio Profundo
Hasta ahora, nos hemos tenido que conformar con datos que señalan la presencia de planetas en torno a otras estrellas, pero los datos son impersonales. Pero un nuevo instrumento instalado en uno de los telescopios más poderosos del mundo ha abierto su ojo infrarrojo para mostrarnos una imagen real de un planeta que se encuentra en la órbita de una estrella cercana y el de un anillo de polvo protoplanetario en torno a otro sol más lejano.
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Una nueva ventana al estudio de los exoplanetas

http://www.astrofisicayfisica.com/2014/01/una-nueva-ventana-al-estudio-de-los.html

January 8, 2014 - Astrofísica y Física
Después de casi una década de desarrollo, construcción y pruebas, el instrumento más avanzado del mundo para obtener imágenes de forma directa de los exoplanetas  y su posterior análisis, ya está listo e instalado en el telescopio de 8 metros Géminis Sur en Chile.
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La Gemini Planetary Imager está en marcha.El espectáculo de fotografiar exoplanetas comienza

http://milesdemillones.com/2014/01/07/la-gemini-planetary-imager-esta-en-marcha-el-espectaculo-de-fotografiar-exoplanetas-comienza/

January 7, 2014 -milesdemillones
La visión directa de un mundo situado a centenares de años luz de nosotros es una de las imágenes que más me ha impactado dentro de la astronomía moderna.
Hasta ahora este tipo de instantáneas son muy escasas en número, pero eso va a cambiar. Comienza el periodo de actividades de la Gemini Planetary Imager (GPI). Esta cámara va a capturar la imagen directa de docenas de exoplanetas , y eso puede colapsar de posts este humilde blog.
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Desde Chile captan la imagen directa de un exoplaneta

http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2014/01/659-559939-9-desde-chile-captan-la-imagen-directa-de-un-exoplaneta.shtml

January 9, 2014 - La Tercera
El instrumento Gemini Planet Imager (GPI), el más avanzado de su tipo y que se encuentra instalado en el telescopio Gemini Sur en la región de Coquimbo, captó la imagen directa de un planeta fuera del Sistema Solar llamado Beta Pictoris b.
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Primeras imágenes de la cámara más poderosa del mundo para la detección de exoplanetas

http://www.astronomiaonline.com/2014/01/gemini-planet-imager-primeras-imagenes-de-la-camara-mas-poderosa-del-mundo-para-la-deteccion-de-exoplanetas/

January 7, 2014 - Astronomia Online (Argentina)
Luego de casi diez años de desarrollo, construcción y testeo, el instrumento más avanzado del mundo para captar de forma directa imágenes de planetas alrededor de otras estrellas ya está funcionando.
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Gemini's First Image Shows a Planet Orbiting a Star 63 Light Years Away

http://gizmodo.com/geminis-first-image-shows-a-planet-orbiting-a-star-63-1497080935

January 8, 2014 - Gizmodo

It might not be much to look at, but this image is insanely exciting. You're looking at the first ever image of a planet, orbiting a star, over 63 light years from Earth.

Acquired by the world's most powerful planet-hunting instrument, the Gemini Planet Imager, it shows a 10-million-year-old planet called Beta Pictorus orbiting its giant parent star. It's the first such image to come from Gemini, which has been under development for over a decade but is only now producing data like this.

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Este es el aspecto que tienen un planeta y su estrella a 67 años luz

http://es.gizmodo.com/este-es-el-aspecto-que-tienen-un-planeta-y-su-estrella-1497239717

January 8, 2014 - Gizmodo en Español
Puede no parecer gran cosa, pero la primera imagen que ha tomado el telescopio espacial Gemini Sur tras su remodelación es todo un hito. Se trata del planeta Beta Pictoris b orbitando alrededor de su estrella, y es importante porque ambos están a una distancia de nada menos que 67 años luz de La Tierra.
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Out-of-this-world first-light images emerge from Gemini Planet Imager

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2014/01/out-of-this-world-first-light-images-emerge-from-gemini-planet-imager

January 9, 2014 - Astronomy Magazine
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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Gemini Planet Imager releases first shots

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/08/gemini_planet_imager_releases_first_shots/

January 8, 2014 - The Register
Earth-based exoplanet hunter, the Gemini Planet Imager, has released the results of its first observation run, a direct image of Beta Pictoris b.
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The Gemini Planet Imager Is Ready to Explore Strange New Worlds

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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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
, 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!

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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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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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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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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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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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The spectacularly clear images of galaxies millions of light years from Earth captured thanks to lasers and mirrors

http://tinyurl.com/kktbyxv

July 4, 2013 - Daily Mail online
These razor sharp images of galaxies millions of light years from Earth have been produced by a remote observatory thanks to a brand new instrument.
The adaptive optics system, called 'GeMS', helps remove atmospheric distortion - or blurriness - when taking pictures of space, making images of much clearer.
It took scientists more than a decade to develop and is now in regular use by the Gemini South Observatory located in Chile.
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Gallery: A New Camera Turns an Earth Telescope into a Space Telescope

http://tinyurl.com/k43g3ao

July 8, 2013 - Discover
For three decades, astronomers have been waging war with the air around them, and slowly winning. A succession of increasingly advanced technologies–under the name active optics, and more recently adaptive optics–compensated for the continuous blowing, flowing, shimmering, and general blurring of Earth’s atmosphere. These devices are not perfect, but they do a credible job sharpening the view. Essentially all of the world’s major observatories now use some system along those lines.

Now the engineers at the Gemini Observatory have taken blur-elimination technology a step beyond. They have just equipped the 8.1-meter Gemini South telescope, located atop Cerro Pachon in Chile, with a system called GeMS...