• Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy

    From Internetado@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 31 23:58:02 2023
    Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and
    scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it
    STARLINK satellites caused 19 light streaks in this image taken in
    November 2019 at the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at the
    Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Such streaks threaten
    the future of ground-based astronomy.
    CTIO

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/satellite-constellations-are-an-existential-threat-for-astronomy/
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