Look up – it's a satellite!
- Written by Christopher Palma, Associate Teaching Professor and Associate Department Head for Undergraduate Programs in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University
The ISS sees us on Earth, but look up at night and you may see it, too.NASA , CC BYI saw my first artificial satellite with my naked eyes during the summer of 1994. I was watching pieces of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact Jupiter from a small observatory with a college astronomy club when someone pointed up – away from the telescope –...
