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No More Than 100,000 Satellites in the Sky if We Want to Preserve Astronomy

No More Than 100,000 Satellites in the Sky if We Want to Preserve Astronomy

A dark silhouette of a hill is seen under a sky filled with bright star trails and the Milky Way, crisscrossed by numerous streaks of light from satellites and meteors.

An astronomer claims that existing proposals for 1.7 million satellites, including incredibly bright ones, will have "devastating consequences" for humanity's view of the Universe.

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