What Do We Have To Lose If Starlink Satellites And Others Like Them Take Over The Night Sky? Studying Dark Matter, Observing Dis

18 April 2020, Brandenburg, Sieversdorf: Two "Starlink" satellites can be seen as stripes of light in the night sky (shot with an exposure time of 15 seconds).Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images A new study says that Elon Musk's constellation of broadband satellites is leaking radiation. Unintended emissions could affect the data that radio astronomers can collect accurately. Experts who spoke to Insider say radio astronomy helps us study dark matter and look for alien life. SpaceX's network of low-orbit satellites emits "unintended electromagnetic radiation" that could negatively affect the study of deep space, a new paper says.A group of scientists from the Netherlands Institute of Radio Astronomy says they detected radiation onboard 47 out of 68 satellites observed over the course of an hour, according to a study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics, a peer-reviewed journal.The Starlink satellites — chosen for their abundance in the sky compared to other low-orbit satellites — were observed using the Low-Frequency Array telescope in the Netherlands.