{"id":215618,"date":"2025-06-08T09:11:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/rubin-observatory-to-detect-millions-of-new-solar-system-objects-in-vivid-detail-simulations-suggest"},"modified":"2025-06-08T09:11:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T14:11:21","slug":"rubin-observatory-to-detect-millions-of-new-solar-system-objects-in-vivid-detail-simulations-suggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/rubin-observatory-to-detect-millions-of-new-solar-system-objects-in-vivid-detail-simulations-suggest","title":{"rendered":"Rubin Observatory to detect millions of new solar system objects in vivid detail, simulations suggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/rubin-observatory-to-detect-millions-of-new-solar-system-objects-in-vivid-detail-simulations-suggest.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen\u2019s University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The NSF\u2013DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is set to revolutionize our knowledge of the solar system\u2019s \u201csmall bodies\u201d\u2014asteroids, comets and other <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/minor+planets\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">minor planets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Rubin Observatory, under construction on the Cerro Pach\u00f3n ridge in northern Chile, features the 8.4-meter Simonyi Survey Telescope with a unique three-mirror design capable of surveying the entire visible sky every few nights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of astronomers from across the globe, including a team from the University of Washington and led by Queen\u2019s University Belfast, have revealed new research showing that millions of new solar system objects will be detected by a brand-new facility, which is expected to come online later in 2025. The NSF\u2013DOE Vera C. Rubin [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}