image: Two of the authors, Riccardo Furgoni (left) and Fabio Falchi (right), with the machines used to compute the atlas. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 10, 2016, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by F. Falchi at Light Pollution Science and Technology Institute in Thiene, Italy, and colleagues was titled, "The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness." view more
Credit: Photograph by Riccardo Furgoni