There is an increase number of satellites in orbit. As technology advances, there are more and more satellites. Satellites can have different functions: scientific, communication, defence or just be junk satellites (these ones are old satellites that aren’t in use anymore).
While humanity is looking for ways to progress, not only in communication, but in other areas too, we see that there are more satellites going to orbit. One of the most significant projects, the 1000 Starlink communications satellites, is the one that help scientists realised that night sky is getting brighter.
Satellites are bright objects and they reflect the light. The bigger the number, the brighter sky will get. Astronomers have raised this issue after the 1000 Starlink satellites were on orbit. They are having trouble to observe and take photographs of the deep space, but no one can take them down now. We cannot notice it with the naked eye yet.
In the coming years there will be more satellites going to orbit, so we should appreciate our dark sky now, because in a hundred years it may not be so dark anymore.
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