1 Director’s Message
Markus Kissler-Patig
3 Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars in Massive Clusters ?
Muzzin
Adam
8 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson and Rachel Mason
12 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
15 On the Horizon
Gemini staff contributions
18 Viaje al Universo
Michaud and Maria-Antonieta García
Peter
The cover of this issue is a
striking new image from
Gemini that peers into the
heart of a galaxy group
known as VV 166. The image
brings clarity and definition
to the different morphological
types in VV 166 despite its
great distance of about 300
million light-years. One of its
most fascinating features is
a perfect alignment of three
disparate galaxies in a precise
equilateral triangle, including
the giant blue spiral NGC 70
at top. Despite the apparent
diversity of galaxy types in VV
166, the relative proportions of
morphologies that we see in it
may represent the distribution
of galactic types throughout
the universe.
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