New Zealand-based private space company, Rocket Lab, rocked world astronomers, after launching a giant disco ball into space last week.
The private space company rocket launched a ball called Humanity Star. The launch is instead praised, astronomers are even angry with the artificial ball.
This object is also called a fake star, or an artificial star. Humanity Star is a three-foot wide geodetic ball of carbon fiber and features 65 highly reflective panels.
Rocket Lab claims the artificial star is able to reflect back the sun's light to all the places on earth. It is estimated that this object will be the brightest in the night sky for the next nine months.
Rocket Lab's Chief Executive Officer and Founder Peter Beck says Humanity Star is made to share the same experience with everyone on the planet.
However, many astrophysicists disagree and get angry with the launch of the artificial star. Air pollution alone has become a major problem for the study of outer space objects. With the Humanity Star and the reflection of sun light makes researchers more difficult to work.
"The big idea can make astronomers difficult." I can understand that it can make things happening but I also feel they do not realize that others can see the downside of the Humanity Star launch, "said New Zealand University of Auckland astronomer Richard Easther Guardian, Sunday 28 January 2018.
Director of Astrobiology from Columbia University of the United States, Caleb Scharf wrote in the Scientific American blog, people living on earth already have their own natural rhythms. Including, alternating day and night. The blinking product complained will blind the eye.
"Most of us do not think Humanity Star is so funny, if I direct the light to a polar bear or put my company's slogan on Mount Everest," Scharf said.