If you're in the western half of Canada or the USA, reportedly you've been treated to quite the evening light show of late. What has looked like shooting stars or meteorites entering the Earth's atmosphere has in fact been Starlink satellites burning up in ever greater numbers.
According to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell (via Earthlink), roughly two Starlink satellites are burning up in the Earth's atmosphere every day. And that's set to go up.
