A new tool for exploring Rubin's discoveries

The Rubin Observatory will revolutionise our understanding of the Solar System, with the capacity to identify more objects in its first year of operation than have been discovered in the past 150 years. 

With the decade-long Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) poised to begin, a new tool – Orbitviewer – will help us make sense of it all.

As an intuitive, mobile-friendly online experience. Orbitviewer will contextualise the millions of Solar System objects that Rubin is set to uncover. 

The tool offers four customisable exploration modes to suit different devices and preferences, ranging from a streamlined set of 16,000 objects optimised for mobile use, to a high-performance dataset featuring up to 1 million objects for desktop users seeking a deeper dive.

Orbitviewer is a product of the NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Education and Public Outreach team.

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