The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile has already uncovered two previously unknown Milky Way companions using early test data: an extremely faint galaxy and a star cluster hidden by dust.

These discoveries offer an early glimpse of what the observatory’s ambitious decade-long sky survey could reveal about our galaxy’s history, its formation, and the mysteries of dark matter.

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