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NASA Awards $15M for Asteroid Hunting Telescopes on Maui
With both the PS1 and PS2 telescopes operational on Maui, the area of sky surveyed for Near-Earth Objects each night has now doubled.
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.
