{"id":11004,"date":"2026-07-01T18:19:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=11004"},"modified":"2026-07-01T18:22:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T16:22:55","slug":"strange-winds-reveal-strongest-hints-yet-of-magnetic-activity-in-exoplanets-eso-press-release-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/strange-winds-reveal-strongest-hints-yet-of-magnetic-activity-in-exoplanets-eso-press-release-3\/","title":{"rendered":"“Beyond the limit”: one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky – ESO Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

01\/07\/2026 – A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have \u201cdevastating consequences for astronomy.\u201d According to the study, no more than 100 000 faint satellites, below naked eye visibility, should orbit Earth, to safeguard our ability to observe the night sky with modern telescopes. The study is the first to compute the extent to which large and bright satellite constellations \u2014 which have also raised concerns about their impacts on health and the environment \u2014 would affect astronomical observations by making the night sky brighter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translation from English by our researcher Anna Wolter – Leggi tutta la storia sul Comunicato Stampa di ESO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One hour of satellites over the northern Atacama Desert in Chile (October 2025) (Credits: F. Kamphues, ESO\/M. Kornmesser)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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01\/07\/2026 – A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have \u201cdevastating consequences for astronomy.\u201d According to the study, no more than 100 000 faint satellites, below naked eye visibility, should orbit Earth, to safeguard our ability to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[390,755,365],"class_list":["post-11004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-eso-2","tag-satellites","tag-vlt"],"blocksy_meta":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",1014,626,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",150,93,false],"medium":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",300,185,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",768,474,false],"large":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",1014,626,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",1014,626,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/eso2607.png",1014,626,false]},"post_excerpt_stackable":"

01\/07\/2026 – A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have \u201cdevastating consequences for astronomy.\u201d According to the study, no more than 100 000 faint satellites, below naked eye visibility, should orbit Earth, to safeguard our ability to observe the night sky with modern telescopes. The study is the first to compute the extent to which large and bright satellite constellations \u2014 which have also raised concerns about their impacts on health and the environment \u2014 would affect astronomical observations by making the…<\/p>\n","category_list":"News<\/a>, Scientific news<\/a>","author_info":{"name":"Maria Rosa Panzera","url":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/author\/maria-rosa-panzera\/"},"comments_num":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11011,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11004\/revisions\/11011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}