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Space Telescopes Are Now Overwhelmed by Satellite Trails

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June 8, 2026 • 48 views
Original source: Universe Today

Unfortunately there’s more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available in pre-print on arXiv from researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center, reports that 73.3% of images the agency’s new SPHEREx space telescope collected between May and September of last year were contaminat...

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