Dying Starlink Satellites Falls Back To Earth Startling Stargazers

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Falling Starlink satellites shocked stargazers across the United States over the weekend. In four minutes, the de-orbiting satellite shot across the U.S., from Washington to Texas. It caught many off guard who tried to figure out what it was.

She filmed and took photos of the fireballs lighting up the sky over North Texas on Saturday night around 10 p.m.

Kinard wasn⁘t quite sure what she had seen. She quickly posted her video on Facebook and others chimed in.⁘

Those were good guesses, but space experts say this is actually a SpaceX Starlink satellite falling from space.

⁘It⁘s going more slowly. It⁘s multiple chunks, it moves across the sky in this stately way. It⁘s really easy to tell that⁘s space debris and not a meteor,⁘ said Smithsonian Observatory astronomer Jonathan McDowell.