Scientists all over the world are celebrating because of a discovery made by a telescope built in the Bay Area.New objects, including some of the biggest, fastest moving asteroids ever seen, are giving astronomers clues as to how they formed and what they’re made of. Those images are from the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile, using hardware made in Silicon Valley at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory.All made possible after 20 years of work on the observatory by scientists’ SLAC. That work is paying off by teaching people about the mysteries in this solar system.According to Astronomer Sarah Greenstreet, they’re just scratching the surface.The astronomers said it took 200 years to learn what they now know about the solar system. They say with the new observatory, they expect to discover twice as many asteroids and comets in just the next year and find 5 million new objects in the next 10 years.
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