Organisers say we need to clean up near-Earth debris or risk making space travel impossible.
This artwork by Steve Kelly was created from 250 individual photographs of examples of what is in orbitImages designed to raise awareness about the vulnerability of space have gone on show in an exhibition.
Our Fragile Space: Protecting the Near-Space Environment has been created by photographer Max Alexander and is backed by the University of Warwick.Organisers said it linked Earth's near-space with conversations around pollution in oceans and in the planet's atmosphere. Director of the Centre for Space Domain Awareness at the University of Warwick Don Pollacco said people had become dependent on satellites.
Prof Pollacco said: "We need to understand this space junk population and clean up the space around the Earth before the risks make routine space activity untenable."The CLASP telescope developed by the university tracks space debris, which varies in brightness as it tumbles through space
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