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The Outer Space Treaty Won't Save Us From Ourselves
John Barentine, Aparna Venkatesan
The rapid growth of human activities in outer space sounds urgent alarms around ethical and philosophical issues, particularly concerning space militarization. The present internat…
Noctalgia (sky grief): Our Brightening Night Skies and Loss of Environment for Astronomy and Sky Traditions
Aparna Venkatesan, John C. Barentine
Fifty years after the first mention of light pollution in Science, the journal recently elevated this topic to the cover of its 16 June 2023 issue, highlighting the large impact on…
Aggregate Effects of Proliferating LEO Objects and Implications for Astronomical Data Lost in the Noise
John C. Barentine, Aparna Venkatesan, Jessica Heim +3
The rising population of artificial satellites and associated debris in low-altitude orbits is increasing the overall brightness of the night sky, threatening ground-based astronom…
Reimagining Near-Earth Space Policy in a Post-COVID World
John C. Barentine, Jessica Heim, Aparna Venkatesan +2
Our planet and our species are at an existential crossroads. In the long term, climate change threatens to upend life as we know it, while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic revealed th…
Semi-analytic forecasts for JWST -- V. AGN luminosity functions and helium reionization at z = 2-7
L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville, Steven L. Finkelstein +5
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) forming in the early universe are thought to be the primary source of hard ionizing photons contributing to the reionization of intergalactic helium. H…
Asteroid Resource Utilization: Ethical Concerns and Progress
Andrew S. Rivkin, Moses Milazzo, Aparna Venkatesan +4
As asteroid mining moves toward reality, the high bar to entering the business may limit participation and increase inequality, reducing or eliminating any benefit gained by margin…