> The Rubin team realized that their telescope had — unbeknownst to them — imaged the object starting 10 days before its discovery. This is so cool! Vera Rubin

> The Rubin team realized that their telescope had — unbeknownst to them — imaged the object starting 10 days before its discovery. This is so cool! Vera Rubin is designed to detect lots and lots of similar things, and having a test case where they can go back and "track" 3I through data is probably a great thing for tuning their models. Can't wait to see what Rubin finds over the years. Also, it's so cool that they found 3I pretty early, we'll now have lots and lots of data from multiple powerful observatories and probably from some remote ones as well. It's nuts that we'll probably get some images/data from probes out in the solar system (mars orbiters, maybe JUICE).