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    Finding a dark-sky paradise on a tiny Vermont hill

    by Jeffrey Kluger Sep 03, 2018 2 minutes
    The sky during Stellafane’s star party. According to a 2016 study, 80% of the world’s population lives in places where light pollution spoils the nighttime view of the heavens. The International Dark-Sky Association is establishing protected areas called “dark sky reserves” to combat that.

    NEARLY EVERY SPOT ON EARTH IS, EFFECTIVELY, a planetarium. Wait for the sun to go down, hope for a cloudless sky and look up. The show’s been running every night for 4.5 billion years now.

    Zane Landers, 15, from Connecticut, with one of his homemade telescopes. Many visitors to Stellafane bring their own instruments. Others grab

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