{"id":19019,"date":"2020-06-05T22:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/05\/astronomers-warn-wilderness-of-southern-night-sky-at-risk-from-spacex-satellites"},"modified":"2020-06-05T22:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T13:23:03","slug":"astronomers-warn-wilderness-of-southern-night-sky-at-risk-from-spacex-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19019","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers warn &#8216;wilderness&#8217; of southern night sky at risk from SpaceX satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazing under threat as pristine skies over New Zealand and Australia are clogged with hundreds of Starlink satellites<\/p>\n<p>Astronomers in the southern hemisphere have warned that the wonders of the night sky are at risk from hundreds of satellites that have been shot into space by Elon Musk\u2019s company SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>The night skies of Australia and New Zealand are globally renowned for their clarity, drawing tourists from across the world to dark-sky sanctuaries such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/travel\/gallery\/2020\/may\/13\/whats-inside-your-bubble-remote-and-dreamy-new-zealand-aotearoa-destinations-in-pictures\">Tekapo<\/a> on New Zealand\u2019s South Island and the Warrumbungle national park in New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/05\/astronomers-warn-wilderness-of-southern-night-sky-at-risk-from-spacex-satellites\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stargazing under threat as pristine skies over New Zealand and Australia are clogged with hundreds of Starlink satellitesAstronomers in the southern hemisphere have warned that the wonders of the night sky are at risk from hundreds of satellites that h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,301,43,56,299,297,1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-astronomy","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-science","category-space","category-spacex"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19025,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions\/19025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}