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The world’s last unspoiled night sky, The Atacama Desert, is in peril. A U.S. energy company's proposed 3,021 hectare complex could increase light pollution by 10%. “All the farther away places that astronomers built telescopes are now light polluted. We cannot escape from civilization anymore.”


“All the farther away places that astronomers have searched for decades to build their telescopes are now at least a bit light polluted, we have arrived at a limit. We cannot escape anymore from civilization.”

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