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zelon88last Thursday at 10:03 PM1 replyview on HN

Part of the reason you don't see them more is because commercial satellite mega-constellations (like Starlink) work against long exposure times by literally clouding and brightening our view of space. (1)

1) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09759-5


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dylan604last Thursday at 10:18 PM

Not really sure how this has anything to do with space based platforms like Chandra (which is x-ray) and Hubble which is well above Starlink. Also, Starlink is only a couple of years old to be problematic, but the ground based observatories have had clean skies for decades before.

This just really feels like someone trying to interject a pet peeve. Whether the peeve is valid or not, it's not the problem here.

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