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Who will save the night sky? Vox.com 4/29/2021 Brian Resnick © DELVE Survey, CTIO/AURA/NSF Starlink satellites create bright lines through an observatory’s view of the night sky. If you travel to one of the darkest places on Earth, you can see one of the last great things completely unaltered by humans: the entire night sky. But increasingly, even in the darkest places on Earth (which are vanishingly rare themselves), humankind is beginning to interfere with this primordial view. The unimpeded view of the night sky is being lost, and quickly. In their quest to provide global broadband internet access to remote places, satellite companies are launching small constellation satellites into orbit close to the Earth so that the internet connection doesn’t have too long of a delay.

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