Tag: light pollution
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Most of us can’t see the Milky Way – this dark sky atlas shows you where you can
A Google Earth visualization shows the effect of light pollution on night-sky viewing in North America. Darker colors indicate lower light pollution, while warmer colors indicate higher levels. (Credit: Falchi et al., Science Advances; Jakob Grothe / NPS; Matthew Price / CU-Boulder) Eighty percent of Americans can’t see the Milky Way from where they live,…