LEO

London, March 22. Increasing light pollution, produced by low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites, like Elon Musk's Starlink, is affecting astronomers who need unfettered access to dark night skies for their observations, scientists have argued. If not forced, "the skyrocketing space economy will not limit itself, to counter the new environmental and security issues raised by the new mega-constellations of satellites", the scientists wrote in a Comment published in the journal Nature Astronomy. To tackle the rising issue of the light reflected toward the night hemisphere by these satellites, the scientific community currently works by lowering their brightness, by closing the shutters…