21 November 2017
First interstellar asteroid looks nothing like expected
...Oumuamua) or just `Oumuamua for short, the object, first detected by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope in Hawaii, was initially thought to be a typical home... the next ones!” Now that telescopes such as Pan-STARRS are powerful enough to detect objects like `...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... found by an international team of astronomers, who used the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 Survey (Pan-STARRS 1). Niku is small by space standards, measuring only 200 km in diameter, and would have otherwise been just...
