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Ethics

The danger of contaminating the night sky

18 Jan 2022 Karel Green
Taken from the January 2022 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "Contaminating the night sky".

Karel Green says that while private space endeavours are to be welcomed, we should not ignore the social and ethical concerns that they raise

Starlink, as seen by DECAM
Damaged vision Astronomical observations have been hampered by SpaceX’s Starlink constellation. (Courtesy: CTIO/Noirlab/NSF/Aura/DECAM Delve Survey)
The past year has seen the exciting prospect of private space travel become a reality. In July, Blue

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Karel Green is a contributing columnist for Physics World and an astrophysics PhD student at the University of Nottingham, UK
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