While the space-based Hubble Telescope is often the first to come to peoples’ minds, the majority of telescopes are actually ground-based. This means that their ability to observe celestial objects is affected by light pollution (which can be somewhat mitigated by building them in high, remote locations), atmospheric distortion, and the absorption of certain portions of the electromagnetic spectrum by Earth’s atmosphere. And now, another obstruction has been added to the list: photobombing by Starlink. How? Starlink’s 42,000 satellites constitute as a ‘megaconstellation’. Large networks such as these can completely dominate a telescope’s field of view, leading to them capture images such as the...