The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon!
by Joseph N. Pelton · 5 Nov 2016 · 321pp · 89,109 words
A World on the Wing: The Global Odyssey of Migratory Birds
by Scott Weidensaul · 29 Mar 2021 · 415pp · 136,343 words
the sky. Astronomers went ballistic when the first of these small, brilliant objects were lofted into low-earth orbit in 2019, concerned that the eventual “mega-constellation” (as it’s been described) would interfere with their ability to study the stars, and alter the character of the natural sky to everyone, everywhere
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would “take all practical steps” to protect astronomy. But no one, so far as Farnsworth and I could tell, stopped to wonder what effect a “mega-constellation” would have on billions of migratory birds, already trying—with ever-diminishing success—to find their way through a night sky bleached of its darkness