Telescopes searching for brief flashes like supernovae and asteroids have to contend with a rising number of glints from satellites. These glints can last for a fraction of a second, but they're bright enough to be recorded as a starlike object in the field of view of a survey like the Vera Rubin Observatory. In a new study, astronomers identified tens of thousands of these glints captured by a survey telescope, and there could be 80,000/hour happening across the sky.
A hype-riding not-actually-a-scientist billionaire apartheid prince says it can't be done, and no one that works for him wants to say otherwise because they don't want to be fired.
A hype-riding not-actually-a-scientist billionaire apartheid prince says it can't be done, and no one that works for him wants to say otherwise because they don't want to be fired.