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light pollution

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light pollution
n.
Illumination of the night sky by electric lights, as in an urban area, that interferes with astronomical observation.
light pollution
n
the glow from street and domestic lighting that obscures the night sky and hinders the observation of faint stars
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In 2001, a lighting professional stated at a conference at the Institute of Mechanical Engineers that the campaign had been 'the biggest factor in the evolution of lighting design over the last ten years'; and a measure of the campaign's success in publicising the problem of light pollution (a phrase that very few people had heard of in 1989) is the fact that it is now a separate entry in dictionaries.
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