Space Vera Rubin Observatory has already found thousands of new asteroids. In just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the powerful new telescope detected more than 2000 new asteroids, including , Based on the current understanding of the solar system and the telescope’s planned observing schedule, an international team of astronomers led by Dr. Schwamb predicts that Rubin’s bounty will include 89,000 new near-Earth asteroids, 3.7 million new main-belt asteroids, 1,200 new Centaurs and 32,000 new objects beyond Neptune., Unlike other telescopes that might capture a single snapshot of a fleeting asteroid, Rubin’s repeated scans of the same sky patches allow astronomers to easily identify objects moving against the static background of stars and galaxies. Asteroids appear as colored streaks in combined images, each color corresponding to a different exposure., The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile, even before its official opening, has identified over 2,100 new asteroids. This powerful telescope is poised to revolutionize our understanding of the solar system by potentially discovering millions of unknown space objects, including hazardous asteroids and the elusive Planet Nine. Named after astronomer Vera Rubin, it honors her dark matter research , This artist’s illustration shows the largest radio jet ever found in the early Universe. and space-based telescopes spot about 20,000 asteroids each year, Rubin Observatory is expected to , .