“It is unacceptably bright for many sky observers around the world,” Meredith Rawls (UW, DiRAC) co-author of a paper on the finding and member of the IAU Center for the Protection of the Dark and Quiet Sky from Satellite Constellation Interference (IAU CPS), told Space.com.
BlueWalker 3 satellite is officially one of the brightest objects in the sky
October 2, 2023 | Space.com
![BlueWalker3, photo by Michael Tzukran](https://dirac.astro.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/iQdGcZDdHSUbPjBtoe9p4G-1920-80.jpeg)