@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org
Post #1008852
2026-04-08 15:08 UTC
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@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org 2026-04-08 15:10
You might have seen previous studies (including several from me) showing that lighting on the country and continental scale is increasing. Globally, the rate of increase is about 2% per year. Those studies looked at (very) large areas, and used monthly or annual composite images. The new study analyzes change at the spatial scale of individual pixels (~0.5 square km) and at the temporal scale of individual nights.
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@notsoloud@expressional.social 2026-04-08 16:38
@skyglowberlin Wow, front page! Congrats! And thanks for sharing here 😃
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@biff52@mastodon.social 2026-04-08 17:17
@skyglowberlin Thanks for this. I live in a small rural community known for the dark sky. Suddenly I'm under siege by light trespass. It seems that since LED lights use less electricity, people increase the output to match their former consumption and the result is devastating!
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@dnavinci@genomic.social 2026-04-09 12:59
@skyglowberlin I'm always amazed at the dense band of lights in North India. It's not a pinpoint at Delhi. It's a dense band across the entire Northern Province all the way over to Bihar.
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@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz 2026-05-15 17:43
@skyglowberlin@fediscience.org For unfathomable reasons a NASA story about this paper came out TODAY, 15 May: https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/picturing-earth-in-a-new-light/ - AFAIK it's the first time they have mentioned it.