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CfDS – The Campaign for Dark Skies. An Anti Light Pollution Organisation
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New Scientist Space Blog: How does light pollution affect the world’s skies?
Help scientists map light pollution between 1 to 15 October and raise awareness about the impact of artificial lighting on the night sky.
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campaign
pollution
light
LightPollution
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Great World Wide Star Count
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LightPollution
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CitizenScience
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The Guardian: Astronomers may be on brink of finding habitable ‘second Earth’
‘Advances in technology suggest scientists are on the verge of being able to detect the presence of small, rocky planets, much like our own, around distant stars for the first time.’
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earth
water
astronomy
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ESA: Satellites witness lowest Arctic ice coverage in history
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climate
GlobalWarming
NorthwestPassage
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