Orion Nebula Bullets region image, then… and now.
On the Cover:
Regular (and attentive) readers of GeminiFocus might notice that the subject of this issue’s cover, the Orion
Nebula Bullets region, already appeared on the cover of the June 2007 issue. This is not a glaring oversight, but is
intentional. The April 2013 cover shows a new image of the region, obtained with the GeMS/GSAOI multi-conjugate
adaptive optics system on Gemini South; it illustrates the next-generation of adaptive optics technology. Having
just completed a dozen System Verification science observations, GeMS/GSAOI is already setting new standards for
wide-field observing with, and uniform corrections in, adaptive optics systems.
For more details on this milestone image, see: www.gemini.edu/node/11925
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