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Kenna Hughes-Castleberry

Stars and satellites streak over Gemini North telescope | Space photo of the day for Oct. 17, 2025

In this long exposure image, a series of rings and streaks in concentric circles fill the colorful blue, orange, and green night sky with a domed roof of an observatory below. .

As one half of the International Gemini Observatory, the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii provides astronomers with a window into the distant universe, from growing stars to evolving galaxies.

Its twin, Gemini South, is located in the Atacama Desert in Chile. Together, these telescopes form a powerful duo that allows astronomers to observe the entire sky from both hemispheres.

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