Here’s how a satellite ended up as a ghostly apparition on Google Earth Zoom in over rural North Texas for a spacey surprise.

Starlink and other megaconstellations are photobombing ground-based telescopes. And they are photobombing remote-sensing Earth-imaging satellites in higher orbits.

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