's asteroid monitoring system has been upgraded, and can now scan the entire night sky in its mission to detect and warn of incoming space rocks.
Based at the University of Hawaiʻi Institute for Astronomy (IfA), the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) has been operational since 2017.
The original telescope array involved a pair of observatories on Hawai'i, but this has since been expanded to the southern hemisphere, with telescopes in and Chile helping in the hunt for dangerous celestial objects.
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