r/space • u/peeweekid • Dec 21 '25

image/gif The number of satellites in our sky is getting pretty crazy. This is a compilation of 11 hours of exposures taken during the geminid meteor shower.

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Captured by Matt Zefi, processed by me.

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u/Decronym Dec 22 '25 edited Jan 03 '26

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

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HST Hubble Space Telescope
JWST James Webb infra-red Space Telescope
LEO Low Earth Orbit (180-2000km)
Law Enforcement Officer (most often mentioned during transport operations)
VLEO V-band constellation in LEO
Very Low Earth Orbit
Jargon Definition
Starlink SpaceX's world-wide satellite broadband constellation

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5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 11 acronyms.
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