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The Night Sky Is Getting Brighter, and Europe's Wins Prove We Know How to Stop It

Researchers just finished the most careful accounting of Earth's artificial light ever assembled, and the result is 16% brighter nights since 2014. But buried in the same dataset is France's 33% drop, and that number changes the entire argument.

By Dr. Nadia Osei · 3 min read

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800,000 Alerts in One Night Changes What Astronomy Can See

Rubin issued 800,000 sky-change alerts on its first night of operations and will scale to 7 million per night. The speed is what other telescopes cannot match. So is the threat: satellite megaconstellations could already be erasing up to half the data.

By Vera Santos · 3 min read