13 November 2017
Powerful outburst points to new class of high-energy transients
... Astronomy, say is the most energetic of these types of events to date. Found using the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Pan-STARRS1 Survey, PS1-10adi is calculated to have an energy of 2.3 x 1052 ergs, which is the equivalent of 2.3 x 1045 Joules...
15 April 2020
Scientists discover most brightest and energetic supernova yet
... stars in the Universe." Supernova 2016aps was first detected in data from the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), a large-scale astronomical survey programme. The team also used data from the Hubble Space...
03 June 2020
New study challenges the assumption that the Universe doesn't spin
... to generating vast data sets on the structure of the Universe such as the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), Lior Shamir, a computational astronomer and computer scientist...
May 2026
Focusing the world on planetary defence
..., monitoring, and mitigation. Technologies like NEOWISE (Near-Earth Objects Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer), Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System) and ATLAS (Atmospheric Laboratory of Applications and Science) provide...
18 August 2016
Space Rebel Niku Baffles Astronomers
... “Rebellious” in Chinese, was recently 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...
