✨ It's a new year, and our mission to protect dark and quiet skies continues! 🌌. 🎬 Get a quick overview of the work being done across our hubs from some of the people involved in the CPS!👇

🗞️ Have you subscribed to our quarterly CPS newsletter? It brings together updates on activities from across our four hubs!. ✍️ Sign up – and read the first issue – here: @NOIRLabAstro @SKAO @IAU_org @IAU_outreach

📻 The latest episode of @ska_switzerland's French-language Radio Cosmos podcast focuses on dark and quiet skies, including the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy and efforts to reduce space debris. 🎧 Listen to the conversation:

As the Rubin Observatory @VRubinObs gears up to begin surveying our cosmos using the largest digital camera ever built, @Nature speaks to IAU CPS members about the tools that are helping astronomers to manage the impact of satellite constellations. 🛰️.

📣 The first IAU CPS newsletter is out! It features updates on the activities of our four hubs, useful resources, and a special interview on astrophotography in the age of satellite constellations. 🛰️. 🗞️ Read it here: .✍️ Sign up:

Our colleagues @ESA's new Zero Debris Technical Booklet has a chapter dedicated to protecting #DarkAndQuietSkies, produced with input from our CPS experts. 🌌 It's a "to do list" identifying technologies needed to minimise space debris. Take a look 👇

🇨🇭Swiss broadcaster @SRF reports on astronomers' concerns about the increasing number of satellites and their adverse effect on dark and quiet skies, including speaking to @IAU_org President Prof. Willy Benz. 📺 Watch it here (in German) 👇

NEWS: For the first time, the impact of satellite constellations on astronomy has been discussed as an agenda item in a key @UN subcommittee. Read more 👉 #UNCOPUOS @UNOOSA @AfricaAstronomy @ESO @SKAO

📖 Great explainer from @EPFL_en on international efforts to protect dark and quiet skies: “Our societies, not private companies, should decide whether to protect our dark and quiet sky as a resource shared by all humankind,” says Prof. Jean-Paul Kneib.

"We're actively working with satellite operators to try to find a solution" - . CPS Community Engagement Hub Co-Lead Dr @JohnBarentine. Read about efforts being made across continents to protect #DarkAndQuietSkies in this @IFLScience piece by @DrCarpineti.

NEWS: The US National Science Foundation @NSF has awarded a major grant to a satellite mitigation project led by the CPS, to develop publicly accessible software tools to precisely predict the positions, time of passage & brightness of satellites. 🛰️.More:

If you're attending #IAUGA2024 @astronomy2024 in Cape Town, don't miss our session on 7-8 August on protecting #DarkAndQuietSkies 🌌! Hear about the latest developments on policy, technical mitigations and dialogue with commercial space operators. More:

It's great to see #DarkAndQuietSkies being featured at UN #COPUOS2024 with a side event panel discussion organised by the Permanent Missions of Chile 🇨🇱 and Spain 🇪🇸 tomorrow, 20 June, in Vienna. See the full programme here: #satellites

@UBC @DonnerPrize The book touches on several key areas of interest and concern for our community, including the legislation that governs satellite mega-constellations. 🔗 Learn more about our Policy Hub's work:

🎉 Congrats to @UBC Associate Prof. Aaron Boley - CPS Policy Hub co-lead - and Prof. Micheal Byers on winning the @DonnerPrize 2023 for their book "Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics and the Sustainable Development of Space". Watch👇

Working on the impact of large satellite constellations on astronomy? We're inviting abstract submissions for a special session at the UK National Astronomy Meeting on July 16. Get in before the deadline!.

RT @IAU_Outreach: The @IAU_CPS is a bastion to protect our #DarkAndQuietSkies. Find more here about this collaboration between @IAU_org, @S….

It's also "a resource that members of the astronomical community can call upon – wherever they’re based in the world – to deliver these key messages about what we are facing and the constructive route forward" says @IAU_CPS Policy Hub's Andrew Williams @Andy4Science.

The document proposes measures and mitigation strategies for different stakeholders, including calling for satellite operators to adopt voluntary mitigations, and outlines the regulations needed at both the national and international level. @SKAO @NOIRLabAstro @IAU_org.

#NEWS We've issued our first recommendations paper, urging action to address the impact of #SatelliteConstellations on astronomy 🛰️. The 30-page paper is the result of 18 months’ work by experts inc. astronomers, industry & policy advisors. Read it here: