{"id":130124,"date":"2021-11-06T12:24:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ai-algorithms-cannot-save-astronomy-from-internet-satellites"},"modified":"2021-11-06T12:24:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T19:24:04","slug":"ai-algorithms-cannot-save-astronomy-from-internet-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/ai-algorithms-cannot-save-astronomy-from-internet-satellites","title":{"rendered":"AI algorithms cannot save astronomy from internet satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-algorithms-cannot-save-astronomy-from-internet-satellites2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are absolutely losing some science,\u201d Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells <i>The <i>Register<\/i><\/i>. \u201cHow much science we lose depends on how many satellites there end up being. You occasionally lose data. At the moment it\u2019s one in every ten images.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Telescopes can try waiting for a fleet of satellites to pass before they snap their images, though if astronomers are trying to track moving objects, such as near-Earth asteroids or comets, for example, it can be impossible to avoid the blight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we raise the number of satellites, there starts to be multiple streaks in images you take. That\u2019s no longer irritating, you really are losing science. Ten years from now, there may be so many that we can\u2019t deal with it,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe are absolutely losing some science,\u201d Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, tells The Register. \u201cHow much science we lose depends on how many satellites there end up being. You occasionally lose data. At the moment it\u2019s one in every ten images.\u201d Telescopes can try waiting for a fleet of satellites [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,418,6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}