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from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX\u2019s Starlink Satellites Are Photobombing Astronomy Images, Study Says<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Streaks left by passing satellites mar observatories\u2019 celestial images, potentially hinder spotting of dangerous asteroids<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Aylin Woodward<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A streak from a Starlink satellite appears in this image of the Andromeda galaxy. PHOTO:\u00a0CALTECH OPTICAL OBSERVATORIES\/IPAC<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As the armada of satellites circling Earth grows, a new study shows that astronomy images are being marred by streaks of reflected sunlight left by the fast-moving objects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SpaceX alone launched nearly 150 of its expanding fleet of Starlink telecommunications satellites<\/a> in the past month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the study<\/a>, published Jan. 14 in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, researchers examined the effects of Starlink satellites on about 300,000 images taken by an instrument at the Palomar Observatory in Southern California. Between November 2019 and September 2021, they noted a 35-fold increase in the number of corrupted images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Wall Street Journal SpaceX\u2019s Starlink Satellites Are Photobombing Astronomy Images, Study Says Streaks left by passing satellites mar observatories\u2019 celestial images, potentially hinder spotting of dangerous asteroids By Aylin Woodward As the armada of satellites circling Earth grows, a new study shows that astronomy images are being marred by streaks of reflected sunlight left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}