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US issues first ever fine for space junk to Dish Network (www.bbc.com)
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[–] Chailles@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I believe it's just a depiction of it. Looking around some other similar pictures, there were some images where it showed all "space debris" larger than 1cm as like a white dot. So, it's not quite the level of fields of metal floating around out there.