There's still a chance to see these bright, fast-moving objects in the sky Thursday and Friday morning if you missed them early today.
Have you seen bright lights in a straight line travelling across the sky lately and wondered what they are?the first images from NASA's James Webb Space TelescopeAn ABC Radio Brisbane listener told the Breakfast program the lights seemed to be like a centipede of stars or lights travelling through the sky towards him, going at "quite a speed".
"His company SpaceX launched [the satellites] in the last 24-36 hours and they were visible between about 5:21am and 5:26am over our region this morning," he said."The satellites have been launched to provide the Starlink internet service and are causing astronomers no end of grief because of the pollution they cause, and they're also really freaking people out.Reflected light left by recently launched Starlink satellites as they pass through a telescope's field of view.
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