Rubin Comet Catchers

Welcome to Rubin Comet Catchers! Update 17 September 2026: Thanks for your amazingly FAST comet classifications of Rubin data! Incredible! We have a ton of awesome updates coming, and here’s the first: we got special permission by Rubin Observatory to release images EARLY for you! We’re working on getting those data ready as fast as we can! In the meantime, we have our special set of real Rubin images that the science team figured out a clever way to get! Let’s find some cool comets in there!

Thanks, everyone, for all your hard work! You can always check out this YouTube video featuring Colin on a show he hosts about the upcoming Rubin Observatory and the Legacy Survey of Space and Time! It features Citizen Science, and Clare Higgs of Rubin Education and Public Outreach presents, too! Thanks again, everyone! We cannot do this without you!