New Telescope Spots First Two Thousand of Expected 5 Million Asteroid Detections
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6YAA2)
The Vera Rubin Telescope Observatory is now operational and is enable astronomers to explore galaxies, stars in the Milky Way, objects in the solar system, and all in a truly new way. In its first 10 hours of test observations, the observatory has discovered 2,104 never-before-seen-asteroids, including seven near-Earth asteroids, none of which pose any ...