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Look up for a change

How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of seeing directly into space.

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How often do you see the true beauty of the night sky? TED Fellow Lucianne Walkowicz shows how light pollution is ruining the extraordinary -- and often ignored -- experience of seeing directly into space.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxPhoenix, an independent event. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Read more about TEDx.

About the speaker

Lucianne Walkowicz

Stellar astronomer

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Lucianne Walkowicz works on NASA's Kepler mission, studying starspots and "the tempestuous tantrums of stellar flares."

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