Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. whose articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space, Newsweek and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University. Follow him on Twitter @sciencef1rst.
An image of the sky taken from a facility in Namibia that rents telescopes out to amateur astronomers found to have the least light-polluted sky of 50 observatories.Artificial light pollution from Earth is contaminating the skies over most major astronomical observatories, requiring immediate action to remedy, a team of international scientists has determined.
The team, including scientists from Italy, Chile and Spain, compared light pollution at almost 50 observatories, ranging from some of the largest professional observatories in the world to smaller amateur-focused facilities. The scientists then applied a model of how light travels throughThe researchers also accounted for light pollution across the entire night sky.
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