Chile's Atacama Desert is one of the darkest places on Earth. But now the light is intruding ^31.9%

BBC - By Richard Fisher - 5/29/2026, 10:00 AM

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This remote desert in South America is one of the best places in the world for astronomy, but the slow encroachment of artificial light threatens that. It is a sign of just how inescapable light pollution now is. It's 2:00 in Chile's Atacama Desert, and I wake up in the dark. Inside my room, it's the kind of black where you don’t know if... more