Citizen scientists report global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars from 2011 to 2022

Christopher C M Kyba1,2, Yiğit Öner Altıntaş1, Constance E Walker3

  • 1Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum Potsdam, 14473 Potsdam, Germany.

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|January 19, 2023
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