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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© 2009 American Institute of Physics
Light 'fog' hides Milky Way Free
18 June 2009
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.5.023438
Content License:FreeView
EISSN:1945-0699
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