Astronomer Teddy Kareta had spent countless nights over the years observing various objects across our solar system using Arizona’s Lowell Discovery Telescope, or LDT. On Nov. 19, 2022, he set his alarm to ring shortly before midnight, in preparation for what he presumed would be a quiet observing night — and woke up to missed calls and messages from his boss.

Those pings, he recalled, “more or less could be summarized as, ‘Dude, you gotta get on the telescope right now! What are you doing? Pick up!'”

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