Since Then, They Have Been Visible in Many Parts of the Country, With the Chain of Lights Observable for Several Minutes in Some Locations

Norwegians are being urged to look up and toward the west over the coming evenings to catch a glimpse of strings of Starlink satellites crossing the night sky. Anne Mette Sannes, an astronomy and space communicator at Astroevents, which she runs with her husband, astrophysicist Knut Jørgen Røed Ødegaard, described the sight as extraordinary. "It is absolutely fantastic to see the train coming across the sky.

It looks like a flock of grey geese," she said. The bright dots are Starlink satellites launched by SpaceX from California in the US on Saturday to provide broadband coverage worldwide. Since then, they have been visible in many parts of the country, with the chain of lights observable for several minutes in some locations.

Sannes explained that the satellites are especially visible now because they travel in a tight cluster before dispersing to their operational orbits. "That is why they hang together on a fine string and look like a pearl necklace in the sky," she said. Bjørn Viken observed the lights over Engelsviken in Fredrikstad over the weekend.

"Whoa, what is this, we thought, and realised it could not be a plane, he told NRK. Others also wondered about the unusual sight, with August Amundsen Ubeda writing, "Very cool night sky tonight, and Eskil Ødegård describing a "mysterious 'star row' in the sky." Sannes said the satellites are hard to miss because they appear in a long line. "There are around 30 on average coming in a huge row.

So it is almost impossible not to see it," she said. She added that the satellites are not dangerous, though some believe they disturb the starry sky by blending with background stars, making it hard to distinguish them. The satellites will be visible over both eastern and western Norway in the coming evenings, depending on light conditions and weather.

Sannes advises looking up between 22:30 and 23:00 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, depending on location. People can search for their city via the website Findstarlink. On Monday, the satellites were visible for about four minutes over Gjøvik.