1 Director’s Message
Markus Kissler-Patig
4 First Likely Planets in a Nearby Circumbinary Disk
Valerie Rapson
8 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson
11 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
6 On the Horizon
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Gemini staff contributions
21 Seeing Where Stars Collide
Gemini Public Image Release
ON THE COVER:
GeminiFocus July 2015
Gemini Observatory
near-infrared image
of the globular cluster
Liller 1 obtained with
the GeMS adaptive
optics system on the
Gemini South
telescope in Chile.
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