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Citizen-science observations indicate rapid sky brightening

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The newsletter reports citizen-science findings of night-sky brightening at 9.6% annually, which the author associates with LED lighting.

Reported metric: 9.6% a year

Reporting date: 2026-10-03 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to October 3, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the October 3 issue (www.science.org)

Indexed from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross’s October 3, 2026 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Citizen-science observations indicate rapid sky brightening
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Reporting date: 2026-10-03
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-10-03-night-sky
Claim: The newsletter reports citizen-science findings of night-sky brightening at 9.6% annually, which the author associates with LED lighting.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to October 3, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-october-3-2026
- Source linked by the October 3 issue — https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abq7781
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