{"id":137835,"date":"2022-04-07T22:02:54","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/satellite-pollution-is-threatening-to-alter-our-view-of-the-night-sky"},"modified":"2022-04-07T22:02:54","modified_gmt":"2022-04-08T03:02:54","slug":"satellite-pollution-is-threatening-to-alter-our-view-of-the-night-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/satellite-pollution-is-threatening-to-alter-our-view-of-the-night-sky","title":{"rendered":"Satellite pollution is threatening to alter our view of the night sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/satellite-pollution-is-threatening-to-alter-our-view-of-the-night-sky.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind \u2014 and it looks almost the same now as it did then.<\/p>\n<p>But the night sky as we know it is on the precipice of changing dramatically due to the proliferation of satellites just a few hundred miles above Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in human history, we\u2019re not going to have access to the night sky in the way that we\u2019ve seen it,\u201d Samantha Lawler, an assistant professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/space\" title=\"astronomy\" target=\"\" rel=\"\"> astronomy<\/a> at the University of Regina in Canada, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The night sky has been a source of information and wonder since the dawn of humankind \u2014 and it looks almost the same now as it did then. But the night sky as we know it is on the precipice of changing dramatically due to the proliferation of satellites just a few hundred miles above [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137835","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}