Light ‘fog’ hides Milky Way
JUN 18, 2009
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.023438
COSMOS magazine : Light pollution has caused 20% of the world’s population —mostly in Europe, Britain and the US—to lose their ability to see the Milky Way in the night sky."The arc of the Milky Way seen from a truly dark location is part of our planet’s natural heritage,” said Connie Walker, and astronomer from the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory in Tucson, Arizona.Yet “more than one fifth of the world population, two thirds of the U.S. population and one half of the European Union population have already lost naked eye visibility of the Milky Way.”
© 2009 American Institute of Physics
