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Astronomers are concerned that our views of the heavens are more and more obscured. Their warning ahead of a whole series of satellite launches by a variety of companies. Thousands of satellites are launched into orbit throughout 2020 to high-speed Internet more readily available across the world from space. The scientists the skies will so littered with arrays of satellites they will for our attention with the stars. They say the satellites will link up to form "mega-constellations" that could with radio astronomy and the quality of images from optical telescopes. The astronomers said the satellites will as dazzling white streaks of light that could be for stars.

Technology analysts there are plans to as many as 46,000 satellites into space over the next few years. This is five times more than the number of objects into space since the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957, over six decades ago. Satellites from companies like SpaceX and Amazon will much faster Internet speeds to even the remotest areas of the world. They will global connectivity across the globe. Even today, about 14 million people in the USA in rural areas with zero Internet coverage. SpaceX will 120 satellites in January and plans to a further 12,000 into orbit in the next decade. Astrophysicist Dr Dave Clements the initiative a "tragedy".