A mountain range between Spain and France, spanning the sovereigns of the Iberian and French peninsulas.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has begun the Legacy Survey of Space and Time, a 10-year program that will image the southern sky every few nights. The telescope has started regular operations from its Chilean mountaintop site and is already returning new detections, including thousands of asteroids and transient views such as Comet 3I/ATLAS.
On the 174-kilometer route from Gruissan to Font-Romeu, ominous hailstorms force organisers to cancel stage three after Tadej Pogacar signals the peloton to safety. No stage winner or podium ceremony will take place; general classification times remain as after stage two.