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Will starlink spoil astronomy?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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Is Starlink a Goodo for Astronomy?

Starlink has thousands of small satellites, all giving off radio waves. They might interfere with ground base observations - perhaps creating the need for more space telescopes. It's going to ad man made light pollution, and we're going to need to remap what we can visually see from earth into outer starling. I saw a train of 29 starling satellites the other night, and i can't imagine if my telescope were aimed directly in that line. Alot of worry about how many satellites they want to put upad how it totally tips the scales and turns a space debris and may be a point we can never come back from.

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