Gemini telescope

noun

1. either of two identical 8-metre telescopes for optical and near-infrared observations built by an international consortium. Gemini North is in Hawaii at an altitude of 4200 m on Mauna Kea and Gemini South is in Chile at 2715 m on Cerro Pachón

Example Sentences

On Tuesday, protesters prevented Gemini Telescope technicians from going to the summit to perform maintenance.

From Washington Times

At the moment, the three most capable are the Gemini Planet Imager, attached to the southern Gemini telescope, in Chile; the Spectro-Polarimetric High-Contrast Exoplanet Research Instrument on the Very Large Telescope, a European machine also in Chile; and the Subaru Coronagraphic Extreme Adaptive Optics Device on the Subaru telescope, a Japanese machine on Hawaii.

From Economist

The newly found black hole, observed by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii, seems to suggest that such black holes are more common that once thought.

From The Verge

He explained the Gemini telescope captured the first image of a planet in another solar system, noting much of that work was done by kama’aina staff.

From Washington Times

Meech and her colleagues used the 8-metre Gemini telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, to confirm that the comet was giving off hardly any dust.

From Nature