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Environmental science: Hymn to fading stars

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An exploration of humanity's compulsion to banish darkness is highly enlightening, finds Tim Radford.

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  1. Tim Radford is the author of The Address Book: Our Place in the Scheme of Things. He was science editor of The Guardian until 2005.,

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Radford, T. Environmental science: Hymn to fading stars. Nature 499, 26–27 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/499026a

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