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Drawing a Line in the Sky: Astronomers Confront Satellite Threat – Physics

The astronomy community has released recommendations for mitigating the impact of thousands of internet-providing satellites that companies plan to launch in the coming years.

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Trails from 19 Starlink satellites were captured in this composite image taken in November 2019 by a camera on the Blanco 4-m telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile.
The sky is changing. As many astronomers and backyard onlookers have noticed, a number of unfixed “stars” have recently appeared. These moving blips are Starlink satellites, launched by the SpaceX corporation with the aim of providing high-speed internet to remote regions of the planet. Currently, …

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