'The startling conclusion is that the BlueWalker 3 satellite is one of the brightest things in the sky,' astronomer Meredith L. Rawls told Newsweek.
A new satellite has become one of the brightest objects in the night sky, sparking concerns among scientists for the future of astronomy.
"For context, the way magnitudes work is, something that is magnitude 2 is only about 40 percent as bright as something that is magnitude 1. The unaided eye can see objects down to about magnitude 7 from a very dark site. Venus' apparent magnitude in the sky is about -4 .
The authors of the study fear that as more and more satellites are launched into orbit, astronomers may face increasing numbers of problems.
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