{"id":427574,"date":"2026-02-15T20:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427574\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T20:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T20:42:08","slug":"they-wanted-to-see-earth-but-they-captured-starlink-instead-heres-the-image-that-wasnt-meant-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/427574\/","title":{"rendered":"They Wanted to See Earth, but They Captured Starlink Instead: Here\u2019s the Image That Wasn\u2019t Meant to Be Seen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tThey Wanted to See Earth, but They Captured Starlink Instead: Here\u2019s the Image That Wasn\u2019t Meant to Be Seen &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>February 15, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            4 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1200\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/starlink-google-earth.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"starlink google earth\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Spotted! A Starlink satellite passes overhead while a Pleiades satellite is imaging an area north of Dallas, Texas. \u00a9 Google Earth<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They Wanted to See Earth, but They Captured Starlink Instead: Here\u2019s the Image That Wasn\u2019t Meant to Be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[47650,40509,90,416,44754,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-427574","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-low-earth-orbit","9":"tag-satellite-constellation","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-starlink-satellite","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom","15":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}