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2026 ED138 image gallery

Discovery images, orbit diagrams and illustrations, all under open licences and credited to their creators. Click an image for the original file and licence.

Rubin Observatory composite of a crowded Milky Way star field in Corona Australis, with circles marking 2026 ED138 along its path from March to July 2026 — 2026 ED138 orbital arc (with annotations) (noirlab2626a)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA. Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) · CC BY 4.0

Mosaic of 2026 ED138 discovery images (noirlab2626f)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbit in 3D (animation) (video)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor. Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbit in 3D (with dwarf planets) (noirlab2626c)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

The same Rubin Observatory star field in Corona Australis without markers, showing how hard ED138 is to pick out — 2026 ED138 orbital arc (without annotations) (noirlab2626d)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA. Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) · CC BY 4.0

Top-down view of 2026 ED138 orbit (with dwarf planets) (noirlab2626h)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbital pathway during May 2026 (noirlab2626e)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbit with the dwarf planets (portrait animation) (video)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor. Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbit in 3D (portrait animation) (video)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor. Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 Vera C. RubinCredit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA Image Processing: M. Jurić (UW), D. de Martin & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) · CC BY 4.0

2026 ED138 orbit in 3D (noirlab2626b)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0

Top-down view of 2026 ED138 orbit (noirlab2626g)Credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA/R. Proctor Image Processing: M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab) Orbit data provided by the IAU Minor Planet Center (MPCorb catalog), funded by NASA PDCO and the Tamkin Foundation. Star map: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio. Gaia DR2: ESA/Gaia/DPAC. · CC BY 4.0