Help Fight Light Pollution With a Science Experiment From Your Local Library

Now you can borrow science equipment from local libraries and help researchers advance science, like by measuring light in the night skies in your community.

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By Eric Betz
May 10, 2021 9:00 PMMay 10, 2021 8:55 PM
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Globe at Night is a citizen science project aimed at studying light pollution. (Credit: Emily Maletz)

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For most of human history, we slept under the stars. Instead of staring at electronic screens, our ancestors watched the light from the heavens. Things have changed dramatically in recent decades. Seven out of 10 people living in the U.S. today have never seen the Milky Way. Light pollution from street lights, homes, businesses and sports fields now obscures the night sky. And the problem is only getting worse. 

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