Astronomers have long been concerned about reflections from satellites showing up in images taken by telescopes and other ...

Streaks of light from satellites are ruining space images. It will get worse as the number of satellites increases to half a ...

Planned megaconstellations would contaminate the view of the cosmos of four orbiting telescopes Many of the images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope will be blemished by satellite trails if plans to ...

Light pollution from the exploding number of satellites orbiting Earth is making it harder to peer into space.

One of the reasons astronomers like to put telescopes in space is that the “seeing” is better. With no turbulent atmosphere in the way the stars shine steadily, rather than twinkling as they do when ...

Fleets of satellites interfere with snapshots taken by Earth-bound observatories. But a new study suggests these orbiters ...

"The natural question that comes up is: how many more space telescopes will be affected when all these constellations are ...

Satellite streaks could spoil about one in three Hubble images, even when the telescope stays above Earth's weather.

Light reflected from satellites pollutes the images taken by telescopes orbiting Earth, as well as those on the ground. Without mitigations, this will only get worse. Read the paper: Satellite ...

Astronomers have already warned that SpaceX's Starlink satellite network contributes to blemishes on images from ...

Light from the half a million satellites that humanity is planning to launch into Earth's orbit in the coming years could contaminate almost all the images taken by space telescopes, NASA astronomers ...

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