1 Director’s Message
Markus Kissler-Patig
3 A Case of Warped Space: Confirming Strong
Gravitational Lenses Found in the Dark Energy Survey
Brian Nord and Elizabeth Buckley-Geer
8 Science Highlights
Nancy A. Levenson
11 News for Users
Gemini staff contributions
15 On the Horizon
Gemini staff contributions
19 Gemini Harnesses the Sun from Both Hemispheres
Alexis Ann Acohido
21 Gemini Connections
Peter Michaud
24 A New Look for Gemini’s Legacy Images
GeminiFocus July 2016
ON THE COVER:
Gemini South GeMS
adaptive optics image
of the young active
star-forming region
N159W in the Large
Magellanic Cloud.
Learn more about
this image in Science
Highlights starting
on page 9 of this issue.
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AURA image
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