The western part of North America has been treated to an unofficial light show over the last week or so. People in California and Canada have spotted what look like meteorites falling from the sky, but it’s not a space rock that is burning up in the atmosphere—it’s just a sign someone is going to have a slightly slower internet connection. The fiery trails spotted in the sky belong to falling Starlink satellites, and a report from EarthSky suggests we could be seeing them a lot more frequently in the near future.

Currently, about one to two Starlink satellites are falling back to Earth every day from their place in the thermosphere. That’s according to retired Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, the author of Jonathan’s Space Report , which keeps track of what is going up in

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