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One Third of Humanity Can't See Milky Way at Night, Reveals New Atlas of Artificial Brightness (5 of 10)

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One Third of Humanity Can't See Milky Way at Night, Reveals New Atlas of Artificial Brightness (5 of 10)

image: Fabio Falchi, who led the project of the New World Atlas of the Artificial Sky Brightness, with the map of light pollution in Europe. 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


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