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Astronomy and space

Astronomers versus activists: the battle over San Diego’s streetlights

29 Apr 2024 Robert P Crease

Placing scientific laboratories in their local communities poses special challenges, says Robert P Crease

San Diego lights reflecting in the water
Light lessons Broadening the spectrum of light from San Diego’s streetlamps brought local citizens into dispute with Palomar astronomers. (iStock/Denise Vasquez)
In 1983 officials from San Diego City Council in California voted to install high-pressure sodium (H

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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