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The Economist on 2019-05-29 19:01

Starlink and light pollution: The unexpected brightness of new satellites could ruin the night sky

IT WAS quite a show: a train of illuminated dots moving across the sky, many of them as bright as Polaris, the north star. These were not new ...

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