AdvertisementUpdate: June 1, 2019This article has been updated to reflect estimates of satellites potentially appearing in images taken by a telescope that were revised after it was published.Last month, SpaceX successfully 60 500-pound satellites into space. Soon amateur skywatchers started sharing images of those satellites in night skies, igniting an uproar among astronomers who fear that the planned orbiting cluster will wreak havoc on scientific research and trash our view of the cosmos.The main issue is that those 60 satellites are merely a drop in the bucket. SpaceX anticipates —...…AdvertisementUpdate: June 1, 2019This article has been updated to reflect estimates of satellites potentially appearing in images taken by a telescope that were revised after it was published.Last month, SpaceX successfully 60 500-pound satellites into space. Soon amateur skywatchers started sharing images of those satellites in night skies, igniting an uproar among astronomers who fear that the planned orbiting cluster will wreak havoc on scientific research and trash our view of the cosmos.The main issue is that those 60 satellites are merely a drop in the bucket. SpaceX anticipates —...WW…

When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto in 2015, it showed a world that was much more dynamic than anyone had imagined. The dwarf planet hosts icy nitrogen cliffs that resemble the rugged coast of Norway, and giant shards of methane ice that soar to the height of skyscrapers. Cracks deeper than the Grand Canyon scar the surface, while . In one part of the distant orb, the spacecraft’s cameras captured a  that caused a collective swoon among countless fans on Earth.“I expected Pluto to be a scientific wonderland, but it did not have to be so beautiful,” says...…When NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past Pluto in 2015, it showed a world that was much more dynamic than anyone had imagined. The dwarf planet hosts icy nitrogen cliffs that resemble the rugged coast of Norway, and giant shards of methane ice that soar to the height of skyscrapers. Cracks deeper than the Grand Canyon scar the surface, while . In one part of the distant orb, the spacecraft’s cameras captured a  that caused a collective swoon among countless fans on Earth.“I expected Pluto to be a scientific wonderland, but it did not have to be so beautiful,” says...WW…