Space is an unnatural environment for humans. We can’t survive unprotected in a pure vacuum for more than two minutes. Getting to space involves being strapped to a barely contained chemical explosion.

Space X’s Starlink satellites are blinding radio telescopes and risk crippling vital research into the universe, astronomers have warned. New footage from the Low Frequency Array (Lofar) radio telescope shows that satellites can be clearly seen as bright spots moving continuously across the field of view.