Pan-STARRS
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The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System located at Haleakala Observatory, Hawaii, US, consists of astronomical cameras, telescopes and a computing facility that is surveying the sky for moving or variable objects on a continual basis, and also producing accurate astrometry and photometry of already-detected objects. In January 2019 the second Pan-STARRS data release was announced. At 1.6 petabytes, it is the largest volume of astronomical data ever released.
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).
Astronomical survey
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An astronomical survey is a general map or image of a region of the sky that lacks a specific observational target. Alternatively, an astronomical survey may comprise a set of images, spectra, or other observations of objects that share a common type or feature. Surveys are often restricted to one band of the electromagnetic spectrum due to instrumental limitations, although multiwavelength surveys can be made by using multiple detectors, each sensitive to a different bandwidth.
Composite image of the GOODS-South field, result of a deep survey using two of the four giant 8.2-metre telescopes composing ESO's Very Large Telescope
Gamma-ray pulsars detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Spectrum of types of observations of Solar System objects.
The positions in space of just some of the galaxies identified by the VIPERS survey (see Visible Multi Object Spectrograph).