4 Director’s Message
23 The First Mutual Orbits
6 Gemini’s New Instruments
27 Infrared Diffuse Interstellar
Fred Chaffee
Surge Ahead! Fred Chaffee
for Ultra-wide Kuiper Belt Binaries Alex H. Parker
Bands in the Galactic Center
8 Discovery of a
31 Science Highlights
Redshift z > 7 Quasar Daniel Mortlock and Steve Warren
12 Discovering the First Stars:
Tom Geballe
Nancy A. Levenson
Another Step Closer to the 36 Gemini Images a Beginning of the Universe “Soccer Ball” Antonino Cucchiara 38 Nobel Prize Laureate 16 Finding Metals in the Accelerates Minds Gaseous Outskirts of in Hawai‘i Galaxies Jessica Kay Werk and Mary E. Putman 40 Gemini Planet Imager Project Update 20 Record-Breaking Black Stephen Goodsell, Bruce Macintosh, Holes Lurking in Giant and Fredrik Rantakyrö Elliptical Galaxies 45 GeMS Commissioning Nicholas McConnell and Chung-Pei Ma Progress
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Benoit Neichel & François Rigaut