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SpaceX Is Now Threatening the Hubble, NASA Warns

Joe Wilkins

created: Dec. 6, 2025, 3:30 p.m. | updated: Dec. 16, 2025, 2:56 p.m.

Now, a new study by researchers at NASA is warning that obstructions caused by SpaceX and other private satellite companies are becoming so severe that not even the Hubble Space Telescope is safe. As reported by El Pais, the research was led by led by Spanish astrophysicist Alejandro Serrano Borlaff at NASA. In the study, Borlaff concludes that one out of every three Hubble images will become contaminated by light pollution if satellite projects planned for the next decade come to fruition. Hubble is far from the only space telescope affected, and future astronomy craft will likely fare much worse. NASA’s recently launched SPHEREx, meanwhile, could see upward of 99 percent of its images contaminated with light pollution.

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