Gemini North Telescope (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Gemini North Telescope

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The Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea aims a laser beam into the night sky to create an "artificial star" that astronomers use to adjust images made by the telescope to remove the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere. The telescope was used in a new University of Utah-led study that discovered the smallest galaxy yet known to harbor a supermassive black hole. (More Gemini images at www.gemini.edu/images.)

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Gemini Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.

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