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The Problem With Satellites

There are so there's going to be something like 100,000 satellites in the next few years. They pose a problem for astronomy in that they use radio signals to transmit. Without telescopes, just with your regular vision, looking up in the sky, satellites will very soon make up one in ten visible lights in the sky.

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