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Published Date: June 09, 2026

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Space telescopes are now overwhelmed by satellite trails

Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front.

Source Phys.org Updated 2h 06m ago AI Summary

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Unfortunately, there's more bad news to report on the clear skies front. A new paper, available on the arXiv preprint server 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 contaminated by at least one artificial satellite trail. And…

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