#Pan Starrs
Maui telescope used in study of hypervelocity star, found speeding across the Milky Way
A rare star in our galaxy is racing across the sky at an impressive ~1.3 million mph. With its speed and unusual trajectory, this L subdwarf could be fast enough to potentially escape the Milky Way. Located just 400 light-years away, It’s the first hypervelocity very low mass star discovered, and it’s also the nearest known hypervelocity star to Earth.
Haleakalā Telescope Completes World’s Largest Digital Sky Survey
The Pan-STARRS observatory consists of a 1.8-meter telescope equipped with a 1.4 billion pixel digital camera, located at the summit of Haleakalā on Maui.
Interstellar Object Discovered with Maui Telescope Gets Hawaiian Name: “ʻOumuamua”
The interstellar object that was discovered last month with the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui, now has a name — ʻOumuamua.
Possible Interstellar Object Spotted by Haleakalā Pan-STARRS Telescope
“It’s long been theorized that such objects exist but this is the first such detection.” So far, everything indicates it is likely an interstellar object…
Haleakalā Telescope Images Create World’s Largest Digital Sky Survey
The Pan-STARRS project at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy is publicly releasing the world’s largest digital sky survey today compiled using the 1.8 meter telescope atop the summit of Haleakalā on Maui.
Asteroid to Make Close Halloween Flyby, Discovered by UH Telescope at Haleakalā
A large “near-Earth asteroid” named 2015 TB145, was discovered by scientists on Oct. 10, using the University of Hawaiʻi’s Pan-STARRS1 Telescope atop Haleakalā on Maui.
Maui’s Pan-STARRS Telescope Finds “Strange Lonely Planet”
PSO J318.5-22 is located 80 light-years away from Earth, has a mass that is six times that of Jupiter, belongs to a collection of young stars called the Beta Pictoris moving group, and is “one of the lowest-mass free-floating objects known.”
$3M Gift Prevents Layoffs and Cuts to Pan-STARRS Program
Before receiving the donation, officials said they were looking at having to lay off a team and halt the 2-telescope system project. Now officials say, the funding will support construction plans, pay for salaries, preserve science jobs in Hawaii, and bring new knowledge to the world through the most powerful wide-field imaging system on the planet.
