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Invisible radiation leaking from private satellite 'megaconstellations' could ruin radio astronomy forever, experts warn
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Behind the Starlink train is a bright string of lights zooming across the heavens.
But behind these lights lurks an invisible form of radiation: radio waves.
Radio astronomy allows us to see a host of hidden cosmic structures and phenomena that we can’t detect through visual light alone.
Some researchers think we could eventually reach an "inflection point," beyond which ground-based astronomy instruments could become radio-blind.
UEMR is much more intense, or brighter, than naturally occurring radio-emitting objects.
As the problem gets worse, certain frequencies will become increasingly hard to study.
Some radio telescopes, such as LOFAR , will be hit harder than others, but all radio telescopes will be affected in different ways.
At this point, we would no longer be able to "observe faint signals far out into the universe," Fionagh Thomson said.
We risk severely limiting our astronomical capabilities unless we find viable solutions to the problem.
Satellite operators can limit the impacts of their spacecraft on radio astronomy in a few ways.
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