SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE

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SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE

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From LiveScience.com:
"SpaceX satellites are ruining skywatchers' views (and photographs) of NEOWISE, the brightest comet in the Northern Hemisphere since the 1995-96 show of Hale-Bopp."

https://www.livescience.com/spacex-star ... owise.html

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Re: SpaceX satellites keep wrecking images of comet NEOWISE

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Eww.
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