Correction to: Nature Astronomy https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-024-02253-4, published online 29 April 2024

In the version of the article initially published, the affiliation of Wouter van der Wal was incorrect and has now been corrected to the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.