Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it’s an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the world’s greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on the arXiv preprint server, there’s a new story to add to the archives of serendipitous scientific discoveries—Rubin happened to make observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before its official discovery, while the telescope was still in its Science Validation survey, marking the earliest, high-resolution images we will likely get of the comet at that time.
Apparently Vera Rubin captured images of 3I/ATLAS before it was even discovered
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