Pan-STARRS
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The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System located at Haleakalā Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky f
For four years beginning in May 2010, the Pan-STARRS observatory surveyed the entire three-quarters of the sky visible from Hawaii many times in many colors of light. One of the survey's goals was to look for moving objects and transient or variable objects, including asteroids that could potentially threaten the Earth.
Asteroid 469219 Kamoʻoalewa has an orbit around the Sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Disintegration of main-belt comet P/2013 R3 observed by the Hubble Space Telescope (6 March 2014)
Hyakutake Color
1I/ʻOumuamua
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1I/ʻOumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System. Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Canadian physicist Robert Weryk using the Pan-ST
Pan-STARRS
…for asteroids and trojan objects tracked over longer periods of time by Pan-STARRS. In 2017, Pan-STARRS detected the first known interstellar object, 1I/2017 U1 'Oumuamua, passing through the Solar System. During the formation of a planetary system, it is thought that a very large number of objects are ejected due to…
ʻOumuamua on 28 October 2017
Artist's impression of a cigar-shaped ʻOumuamua
PIA21423 Surface of TRAPPIST 1f
Eso 1733s Artist's impression of merging neutron stars