Australian Membership of the International Gemini Partnership

没有一门科学比天文学更能吸引公众的注意。通过成为运营双子座望远镜的国际双子座联盟的成员，澳大利亚向其天文学家保证，它可以使用两台最好的大型地面望远镜。这些望远镜位于夏威夷和智利，使澳大利亚天文学家能够探索一些重大问题，如宇宙是如何演化的，暗物质和暗能量的性质，星系是如何形成的，恒星及其行星是如何形成的。长期以来，澳大利亚在天文学方面一直以“出类拔萃”而闻名，而双子座的成员资格是确保这一领域的突出地位得以保持的关键一步。

No science better captures public attention than astronomy. Through its membership of the international Gemini consortium that operates the Gemini telescopes, Australia has assured its astronomers of access to two of the finest large ground-based telescopes. Located in Hawaii and Chile, the telescopes enable Australian astronomers to pursue major questions such as how the universe evolved, the nature of dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies formed, and how stars and their planets formed. Australia has long been known for 'punching above its weight' in astronomy, and membership of Gemini is a vital step in assuring that this prominence in the field is maintained.