ZONABANTEN.com – Experts warn of possible loss of space on Earth that astronomers can use to view stars and planets without light pollution caused by satellite.
Sam Lawler, a professor at the University of Regina, said the darkness that astronomers and stargazers depended on was becoming more difficult to find as increasing satellite “highly reflective” sent into low orbit.
“Light pollution from satellite it’s global – there’s no place you can escape from,” Lawler told Your Morning on CTV on Friday.
Lawler says satellite which caused the latest problem was satellite launched by SpaceX owned by Elon Musk as part of the Starlink internet service.
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“Several satellite It doesn’t matter, but when suddenly there are thousands or tens of thousands of them reflecting off the sun, then it starts to change the way the night sky looks and we’re right on the verge of that,” said Lawler.
Lawler says number satellite low-flying aircraft have ‘improved dramatically’ in the past year, ‘almost entirely because of the launch of Starlink.’
Lawler, who studies Kuiper Belt objects such as the planet Pluto, says these objects are 15 million times fainter than satellite Starlink, hindered his work and the work of other astronomers.
“They are launching more satellite every two to three weeks [dalam] the stack contains 60, so they want to have 42,000 satellite when right now there are only a few thousand,” said Lawler.
“So this will greatly change the appearance of the night sky.” Lawler emphasized.
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