00:03The Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting Earth and providing insights into our solar system and beyond for more than
00:0930 years.
00:10It even caught some things astronomers missed.
00:12But now experts in association with machine learning algorithms and citizen scientists have identified more than a thousand new asteroids.
00:20Asteroids are generally leftover material from when our solar system was created.
00:24So far, experts have identified some 1.3 million of them whipping around the sun.
00:28And now we've just added a considerable more.
00:30So how did these go unnoticed for so long?
00:32Well, the researchers say they were captured while observing other distant objects, meaning the asteroids effectively photobombed Hubble.
00:38And by going back and identifying where the telescope was aimed when the asteroid was detected has allowed researchers to
00:43follow up and confirm its position in space.
00:46This was all done by nearly 11,500 citizen science volunteers looking through an astounding 37,000 images captured by
00:54Hubble.
00:54With the researchers saying in a recent press release, quote,
00:57We are getting deeper into seeing the smaller population of main belt asteroids.
01:01We were surprised to see such a large number of candidate objects.
01:04There was some hint that this population existed.
01:07But now we are confirming it.
01:10We're being Kemper as well.
01:12By the way we need to make sure that scientists have said that.
01:13By the way we've got the indicator of the telescope.
01:13We're getting closer to that light.
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