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Light 'fog' hides Milky Way Free

18 June 2009
COSMOS magazine: Light pollution has caused 20% of the world's population —mostly in Europe, Britain and the US—to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky."The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet's natural heritage," said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.Yet "more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way."

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