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Will starlink spoil astronomy?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Space Junk

There are already like four thousand or so satellites in low earth orbit, and many more in other orbits. And there's a real danger that if you get too many of these things, they could just crash into each other and fill space with debris,. making it like unpassable. It's called space junk. Just like bits of rocket or broken satellites that are ju sort of floating out there in space, cluttering things up.

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