#3278: Vera Rubin Observatory
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[Title:]
Vera Rubin Observatory discoveries
Bingo card
[A bingo card is shown, with 25 squares. They are as follows:]
Black hole tidally disrupting a star
Planet nine
Remnants of a former Milky Way companion
10,000 new trans-Newtonian objects
Object on interstellar trajectory
Star being eclipsed by weird object
Secret military satellite
Kuiper Belt object that's a surprising color
Mars-sized TNO
Local group supernova
Spurious signal from observatory kitchen
Glitch in alert system spams all astronomers
Space (free)
Earth-sized TNO
Defunct spacecraft
Surprising number of small galaxies
Neutron star merger
New supernova constraints on dark energy
New dwarf planet bigger than Pluto/Eris
Lost historical comet
5 million asteroids and comets
50,000 near-Earth asteroids
Object likely to impact Earth
Vera Rubin herself (faked death, stole spaceship)
Many very small dots
(Sourced from explainxkcd.com)
Title text:'Spurious signals from the kitchen' is harder for an optical telescope than a radio one, but with enough determination and creativity, I believe it's possible.