People who want to participate in this year's iteration of Earth Hour can do so by turning off their lights and unplugging their electronics equipments tonight, March 26, starting at 8:30 pm local time.
The event is officially scheduled to last for about an hour, but participants may keep their electricity c... |
26 March 2011
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Throughout the highly-urbanized world, one of the most severe problems today is the lack of starlight, and even stars for that matter, from the night sky. Light pollution is preventing this light from making its way to us, and experts now want people's help to create a global map of light pollution.The world was... |
23 March 2011
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A collaboration of physicists and ecologists in Germany has recently determined that cloud covers are largely responsible for the brightness of the night sky above the world's major cities. The atmospheric features also contribute to increasing light pollution, the team explains. What's interesting to note ... |
3 March 2011
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Even though it's not exactly certain at this point that life exists on other worlds, astronomers are already planning to detect advanced civilizations, maybe similar to our own in advancements. There are numerous proposed methods of scanning exoplanets for signs of life, ranging from establishing the chirality, ... |
19 October 2009
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Light pollution, a phenomenon endemic to all large cities of the world, may also be the root cause for increasingly difficult amateur astronomical observations in previous pristine areas, such as Death Valley, in California. Famous for its tar-black skies, the region has been a magnet for telescope wielders for many ... |
28 December 2008
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The Australian National University is making an appeal to the inhabitants of all cities across Australia to turn off all lights this Saturday, between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m., in order to raise the awareness of the link between the energy consumption around the world and global warming effects. Amateur astronomers will hav... |
26 March 2008
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