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Rubin Tracks Skyscraper-Size Asteroids, Failed Supernovas, and Interstellar Visitors
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is designed to study the universe in greater detail than ever before. It is expected to discover a million asteroids, thousands of comets, and billions of stars and galaxies in its first year alone. The facility has begun collecting preliminary images and astronomers are poring over the initial data. Scientists have already been able to make new discoveries with its first images despite the images still not being as sharp as expected and the observatory still requiring a final tuning.
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