A call for scientists to halt the spoiling of the night sky with artificial light and satellites

Abstract

Unfettered access to dark night skies is rapidly diminishing, due to light pollution and satellite mega-constellations tracks. Scientists should wake up and do more to stand up to Big Light and Big Space and preserve this natural resource.

5 pages; not edited version of the manuscript published in Nature Astronomy

References in corpus (3)

• The proliferation of space objects is a rapidly increasing source of artificial night sky brightness
• Protecting the night sky darkness in astronomical observatories: a linear systems approach
• Light pollution and the concentration of anthropogenic photons in the terrestrial atmosphere

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• Satellite Impact on Astronomical Observations Based on Elliptical Orbit Model