A new analysis of citizen science reports indicates that light pollution is intensifying around the world.
They found that stars are becoming harder to see, which the researchers suggest is due to the proliferation of human light pollution in the last decade.ccording to the analysis, the night sky got 9.6% brighter each year from 2011 to 2022, meaning some dimmer stars would disappear altogether for many stargazers. “A location with 250 visible stars would see that number reduce to 100 visible stars over the same period,” the study explains.
faster than we had anticipated based on satellite data and population growth, for example,” said Christopher Kyba, a researcher at Ruhr-Universität Bochum and Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, in an email to Gizmodo. “It’s a sign that the efforts that exist to control light to date are not working, at least when considered on continental scales.”for Earth-based
observers to see the more distant light from stars. The team noted that the advent of LED lights may have contributed to the increase in light pollution.All you need to do is sign up with your email and boom: credit for your preorder on a new Samsung device.“Since LEDs allow more light to be produced for the same amount of energy, one result of their development has been increased light use,” Kyba said.
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