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You don't need to worry about this solar death anytime soon, though. Inside the sun, a churning fusion engine fuels the star, and it still has a lot of fuel left — about 5 billion years' worth.
The 60 satellites launched this week merely represent the beginning of a SpaceX campaign aimed at launching as many as 12,000 such spacecraft during the next several years. While the internet community will benefit, the astronomy community is already raising red flags over potential interference with astronomical observations.