{"id":665832,"date":"2026-05-13T03:43:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665832\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T03:43:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T03:43:11","slug":"blurry-spectre-spooks-skies-over-prince-george-lheidli-tenneh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/665832\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurry spectre spooks skies over Prince George\u2013Lheidli T\u2019enneh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday, May 5th, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/british-columbia\/strange-light-british-columbia-9.7189267\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mysterious blob<\/a> moved across the evening sky over Prince George Lheidli T\u2019enneh, blurry to look at, like some kind of\u2026 space ghost. Piercing this interstellar oddity for CFURadio is Malhar Kendurkar, President of the <a href=\"https:\/\/pgrasc.org\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Prince George Astronomical Society<\/a>. For an astronomer, this is a familiar sight related to space exploration, colloquially known as a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/jellyfish.johnkrausphotos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Space Jellyfish<\/a>.\u201d Its visibility is unusual, but the activity surrounding it is not.<\/p>\n<p>Kendurkar explains it is representative of, \u201chow polluted our night sky actually has become over the years, and the more satellites we launch, the more debris there will be in our low earth orbit.\u201d Over time this could lead to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nasaspacenews.com\/2025\/01\/urgent-warning-kessler-syndrome-could-collapse-modern-technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kessler Syndrome<\/a>, where there is so much space junk we can\u2019t get into our orbit without hitting debris.The society encourages various space agencies to <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/an-ultra-black-coating-for-satellites-could-stop-them-spoiling-astronomy-pictures-259171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">cover satellites<\/a> in dark, light-absorbent, colours before they launch but advocacy efforts are limited. Regardless of the origin, eyes looking up at the night sky may observe stirring light and note what Kendurkar reminds us, \u201cit\u2019s still fascinating and it\u2019s still extremely active, and it always will be active.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, May 5th, a mysterious blob moved across the evening sky over Prince George Lheidli T\u2019enneh, blurry to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-665832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}