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SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now messing with astronomical research however there are thousands more arranged
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SpaceX’s Starlink satellites are now messing with astronomical research however there are thousands more arranged

Elon Musk's plan to station a huge number of satellites over the Earth is as of now beginning to bother cosmologists. Starlink is the project propelled by Elon Musk's space investigation organization SpaceX which intends to set up to 42,000 satellites in orbit with the point of carrying high-speed internet to even the most remote corners of the globe. In spite of the fact that only 120 of the satellites are up and running, they're now wreaking havoc with astronomical research. The brightness of the satellites implies that when they cross a piece of the sky being viewed by a telescope, they leave splendid streaks that obscure stars and other celestial objects. A week ago astronomer Clarae Martínez-Vázquez of the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile tweeted...