Here, There, and Everywhere: Will Starlink Overwhelm Our Night Sky?

One night in late April, my husband happened to look out the window and noticed, passing over our valley in southwest Montana, a string of around 30 mysterious lights--too fast to be aircraft and apparently too numerous to be satellites. The next day, a string of emails lit up a local listserv. People who'd observed the lights were wondering what they'd seen, and readers who knew what they'd seen were quick to respond: This was Starlink, a network of satellites intended to deliver high-speed bro...