Apparently Vera Rubin captured images of 3I/ATLAS before it was even discovered

Sometimes serendipity happens in science. Whether it's an apple falling from a tree or a melting chocolate bar, some of the world's greatest discoveries come from happy accidents, even if their stories may be apocryphal. According to a new paper on the arXiv preprint server, there's 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 Scie...