The world’s largest digital camera telescope has discovered 2,000 new asteroids, including seven potentially hazardous space rocks that will pass close to Earth.
The Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile released the first images from its 3,200 megapixel camera, which produces images so large they are impossible to see in detail with the human eye.
In the first few days of sky scanning, the telescope spotted 2,104 unknown asteroids, including a handful of “near-earth objects” (NEOs) which will pass within 30 million miles of Earth’s orbit.
