Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
Every astronomer who complains about satellite streaks has heard the same response from techbro-types: "Why don't you just put all your telescopes in space?"
There are an incredibly large number of reasons why that is totally not going to work. But here's another from Borloff et al "Satellite megaconstellations will threaten space-based astronomy"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09759-5
Prof. Sam Lawler@sundogplanets@mastodon.social
The accompanying News & Views piece "Even in space, satellites photobomb telescopes" by @merrdiff.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy is excellent!
https://rdcu.be/eSZJX
Here's a lovely space-based telescope image, with 560,000 satellite friends. Thanks, techbros.