orbiting
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Tyson and other scientists warn that these orbiting machines will make it increasingly difficult to do astronomical research from Earth—and, eventually, will render the night sky unrecognizable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Satellites orbiting at other positions don’t reflect sunlight because they’re hidden by Earth’s shadow.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2026
Nearby you’ll see the Apollo-Soyuz Command Module, which American astronauts Tom Stafford, Deke Slayton and Vance D. Brand flew to meet with a Russian Soyuz spacecraft orbiting Earth in 1975.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 28, 2026
Rather than orbiting a planet, this unusual object circles a brown dwarf, a celestial body more massive than a planet but not massive enough to become a star.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
I wiggled the dam thing around so that it was aimed upward at the sky, although I had no idea exactly where the satellites were orbiting.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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