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    • An illustration of the solar system showing the paths of the two confirmed interstellar objects. The solar system spans most of the image and has two distinct regions. The outer Kuiper Belt region is a large, fuzzy donut of thousands of icy asteroids and comets spanning half of the total radius of the full solar system illustration. The inner region contains the orbits of the eight planets, drawn as white concentric circles viewed from a slightly elevated angle so they appear as ovals. The path of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, is a red V-shape that opens to the top right, with its closest point to the Sun inside Mercury’s orbit. The path of the second interstellar object, Borisov, is a teal U-shape that opens to the top right, wider than 'Oumuamua's V, with its closest point to the Sun outside Mars’s orbit.
      Confirmed Interstellar Object Paths
    • An animated illustration of the solar system showing the paths of the two confirmed interstellar objects. The solar system spans most of the image and has two distinct regions. The outer Kuiper Belt region is a large, fuzzy donut of thousands of icy asteroids and comets spanning half of the total radius of the full solar system illustration. The inner region contains the orbits of the eight planets, drawn as white concentric circles viewed from a slightly elevated angle so they appear as ovals. The path of the first interstellar object, ‘Oumuamua, is a red V-shape that opens to the top right, with its closest point to the Sun inside Mercury’s orbit. The path of the second interstellar object, Borisov, is a teal U-shape that opens to the top right, wider than 'Oumuamua's V, with its closest point to the Sun outside Mars’s orbit. After a few seconds, the view rotates counterclockwise to demonstrate the Solar System's 3D nature. At 15 seconds, the view rotates back clockwise. At 27 seconds, the view tilts away from us and zooms out.
      Confirmed Interstellar Object Paths Video
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      Revealing dark matter
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      Rubin Observatory under the night sky
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      Astronomer and advocate Vera Rubin
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      Rubin Will Detect Millions of Asteroids
    • An illustration of the asteroid belt as a dense donut-shaped ring of yellow points with the Sun at the center. The background is black with hints of dark blue in the corners and small white pinprick stars sprinkled throughout. A small illustrated Earth sits to the left of the Sun, and a semi-opaque, cone-like teal triangle extends from Earth toward the right. The cone opens up to a mosaic of a couple dozen small, square-like shapes representing Rubin Observatory’s LSST Camera’s detector area. The mosaic is overlaid onto a portion of the asteroid belt, and each tile represents a camera image that detects a group of asteroids. A thin curved white line begins behind the Sun and swings out around the Earth, tracing the path of a small, not-to-scale spacecraft heading toward the illuminated asteroids, ready for exploration.
      Rubin Observatory will discover millions of new asteroids to consider for up-close exploration
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