Amid the millions of distant stars and galaxies captured in just the first images released from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory are thousands of never-before seen asteroids whizzing around the Solar System.“These two beautiful galaxies were photobombed by asteroids,” said Željko Ivezić at the University of Washington and the telescope’s director, presenting an image showing several of the asteroids streaking past two spiral-armed galaxies during an event on 23 June.
During just 10 hours of observing the night sky, the telescope - situated in the clear air high atop a mountain in the Chilean Andes - captured 2104 previously unknown asteroids. Of these 7 are on a trajectory that would pass near Earth, though none pose a risk of hitting us, said Ivezić.
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