{"id":13458,"date":"2024-09-21T12:38:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T19:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13458"},"modified":"2024-11-23T12:40:51","modified_gmt":"2024-11-23T19:40:51","slug":"starlink-messin-stuff-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/09\/21\/starlink-messin-stuff-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink Messin&#8217; Stuff Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/18\/2024\/elon-musk-starlink-space-science-astronomy-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Semafor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/author\/paige-bruton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Paige Bruton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.semafor.com\/ee5ce6999a1418a1142694218cf6827af6e9a95e-7063x4709.jpg?w=1920&amp;q=75&amp;auto=format\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Mike Blake\/Reuters<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aanda.org\/articles\/aa\/full_html\/2024\/09\/aa51856-24\/aa51856-24.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">international team of astronomers<\/a>\u00a0reported in a study Wednesday that the second generation model of Starlink satellites is hampering radio astronomy, which is essential for the study of the non-visible universe, like black holes, for example. The satellites, which are part of SpaceX\u2019s internet constellation, were found to have interference\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cy4dnr8zemgo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">32 times stronger than the first generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The number of satellites in orbit around Earth is rapidly increasing, with some 100,000 expected to be in place by 2030. And as their numbers grow, so does the difficulty of observing the universe from Earth. In some cases, satellites, such as those of Texas company AST Spacemobile, are so\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/texas-startup-keeps-launching-these-obnoxiously-large-satellites-and-the-worst-is-yet-to-come-2000498032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">big and bright<\/a>\u00a0that they appear more luminous all but the brightest objects in the night sky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/article\/09\/18\/2024\/elon-musk-starlink-space-science-astronomy-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Semafor<\/a> ]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Semafor Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say by Paige Bruton An\u00a0international team of astronomers\u00a0reported in a study Wednesday that the second generation model of Starlink satellites is hampering radio astronomy, which is essential for the study of the non-visible universe, like black holes, for example. The satellites, which are part of SpaceX\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}