Night sky dissapearing?

Is this night sky soon gone forever?

We have light pollution, Starlink satellites, and soon maybe sun-reflecting satellites too?

 Light pollution is the overuse or misdirected use of human-made artificial lighting outdoors, altering natural light levels at night. This global environmental problem obscures the starry sky, wastes energy, and harms both human health and ecosystems.

 More than 10,000 Starlink satellites currently orbit the Earth. We see them crawling across dark skies, no matter how remote our location, and streaking through images from research telescopes.

SpaceX recently announced that it wants to launch one million more of these satellites as orbital data centres for AI computing power.

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For now, a single satellite has been cleared for a test demonstration, but the company making it hopes to eventually launch 50,000 of them into orbit.

 This picture was taken on the southern part of the island of Zakynthos, Greece, during a family vacation. Most of the island has light pollution that ruins the night sky, so we took a drive to the southern part where there is no city. And the next mainland to the south is Libya, so the sky was amazingly dark and beautiful. The center of the Milky Way appeared as a cloud in the night sky.

 It would be devastating in many ways if the night sky disappeared more and more, even today not many people have seen a truly dark starry sky. The only way for us to realize our place in the universe, how small we are and that we have to take care of each other.

Eruptions

 

2 eruptions on the sun's eastern edge today from groups 4478 & 4479. Otherwise a fairly calm sun on the disk but a new sunspot is in the works on the western edge as well as a beautiful prominence.

Great sunspots

Several sunspot groups with active areas. Many eruptions have occurred from these areas in the days, some strong, and have now created auroras as far south as +36 New Mexico. Here in Sweden it is far too bright right now for us to be able to see any auroras. Today's images were taken with CaK filter 394 nm which is in the border area between the photosphere, which is visible in white light, and the sun's chromosphere, which is reserved for narrow-band H-alpha filters. In addition to the structures known from white light, such as sunspots, the network of chromospheric flares distributed over the entire solar surface also becomes visible, which precedes the formation of sunspots, as well as supergranulation cells and Ellerman bombs.