Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether its an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the worlds greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on arXiv, theres a new story to add to the archives of serendipitous scientific discoveries - Rubin happened to make observations of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS before its official discovery, while the telescope was still in its Science Validation survey, marking the earliest, high resolution images we will likely get of the comet at that time.
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