Other Science with ATLAS

ATLAS can do a lot of cool science besides searching for dangerous asteroids.

Search for habitable planets outside our Solar System
Look for denizens of the outer Solar System, such as dwarf planets like Pluto or Eris or a Nemesis star
Detect gravitational lensing when nearby stars pass in front of distant ones
Collect light curves of almost all of the variable stars in our Galaxy
Detect thousands of Type Ia supernova explosions to a redshift of 0.1 within the visible sky
See the flashes of light when a star is gobbled up by a super-massive black hole in a distant galaxy
Monitor the activity of 100,000 active galactic nuclei caused by black holes at the centers of galaxies
Search for minimoons that orbit Earth
Track space junk