The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind — and it looks almost the same now as it did then.
But the night sky as we know it is on the precipice of changing dramatically due to the proliferation of satellites just a few hundred miles above Earth.
“For the first time in human history, we’re not going to have access to the night sky in the way that we’ve seen it,” Samantha Lawler, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Regina in Canada, said.
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