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Dark-sky advocates confront threats from above and below

February 15, 2022
Source: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.2.20220209b/full/ In his 1965 book, Starlight Nights, amateur astronomer and renowned comet finder Leslie Peltier recalled looking down at Los Angeles from Mount Wilson Observatory and noting the city lights encroaching on the mountainside. He was also concerned about the reflection of sunlight off growing fields of space debris. He wrote, “I realize that I...
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