Researchers have reported that a third of humanity can no longer see the lustrous Milky Way center when they peer up at night towards the stars.
據研究人員報告,三分之一人口將無法看到夜空中閃爍的銀河。
Published in Science Advances, the study found that nearly 80-percent of North Americans and 60-percent of Europeans no longer see the galactic core at night.
這項刊登在《科學進展》上的研究表明,近80%的北美人口,60%的歐洲人口將與銀河無緣。

That river of celestial bodies represents the visual phenomena which led to the galaxy's moniker, the Milky Way.
大量恒星產生了“河流”這一視覺效果,我們稱它為“銀河”。
Using a combination of orbital and ground observations, the research team assembled a global atlas of artificial light sources.
根據軌道和地面觀察,研究小組制成了全球光污染評估地圖集。
They also found that nearly 4 in five people worldwide live under light-polluted skies.
發現全球近五分之四人口生活在光污染下。
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