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The Channel Island of Sark, which lies about 80 miles south of England, has been designated the world's first dark-sky island, according to Yahoo buzz.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

The Channel Island of Sark, which lies about 80 miles south of England, has been designated the world's first dark-sky island, according to Yahoo buzz.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

The Channel Island of Sark, which lies about 80 miles south of England, has been designated the world's first dark-sky island, according to Yahoo buzz.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

The dark-sky movement, as it's come to be known, calls for communities to embrace the idea of creating little to no light pollution.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

The dark-sky movement, as it's come to be known, calls for communities to embrace the idea of creating little to no light pollution.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

The dark-sky movement, as it's come to be known, calls for communities to embrace the idea of creating little to no light pollution.

World's First 'Dark Sky' Island The Huffington Post 2011

From a dark-sky location, your unaided eye can even spot this magnitude 4.5 star vault as a hazy patch.

Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: March 5-7, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

From a dark-sky location, your unaided eye can even spot this magnitude 4.5 star vault as a hazy patch.

Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – February 12-14, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

This magnitude 8.5 group is visible under dark-sky conditions to binoculars as a weak, round, hazy patch and requires a mid-sized telescope to begin resolution of its long, looping chains of stars.

Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast: February 19-21, 2010 | Universe Today 2010

Lying in the constellation Cetus, HD 1461 can be seen with the naked eye in the early evening under good dark-sky conditions.

First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars | Universe Today 2009