Scientists Turned On a New Telescope... Then This Happened 😳

Añadido: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]A new telescope looked at the sky for just 10 hours and found more than 2,000 asteroids we didn't know existed.

[00:00:07]>> [music] >> Think about that. We've been studying the sky for centuries, yet a single telescope found thousands of hidden objects almost immediately, which raises an uncomfortable question. How much of the sky have we actually mapped? The telescope is called the Vera Rubin Observatory and every night it scans enormous portions of space with unprecedented detail. Its mission is simple. Find what's hiding in the dark.

[00:00:31]Unknown asteroids, near Earth objects, fast-moving rocks that could pass dangerously close to our planet. And if this is what it found in its first few hours, imagine what it will discover over the next decade. Scientists believe Rubin could become the greatest asteroid hunting machine ever built [music] because the real danger may not be the asteroid we know is coming. It's the one we haven't seen yet.