What is Gemini?
The Gemini Observatory is an international partnership. Seven countries (Australia, the USA, the UK, Canada, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile) combined together to build and run two of the world’s largest and most powerful telescopes: Gemini North (located on the extinct volcano Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawaii), and Gemini South (located at Cerro Pachon, in the Chilan Andes). The two telescopes are virtually identical, and together they provide astronomers coverage of the whole sky, north and south. Gemini North began doing science in 2000. Gemini South made its first science observations in the latter part of 2001.
