Together, these researchers have found a way to measure the amount of light pollution around using satellite data, thereby creating the world's first atlas of light and darkness.
When the sun goes down, crossing the line between the City of Light and the City of Darkness is eerie, almost post-apocalyptic: moving within minutes from the bright lights of Times Square to the narrow unlit streets of the Financial District with the looming outlines of skyscrapers towering overhead.
Many who observe this holiday will light the Diya, or lamp, which symbolizes the triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance.
As a result, a new Golden Age began as Europe emerged out of the darkness into the light of reason.
The breadth of the divide between what Aravind Adiga calls the "India of Light, " and the "India of Darkness, " is both dramatic and shocking.
The adage "out of darkness comes light" is a reminder for those who endure tragedy that there is always hope.
The music is accompanied by a ghostly halo of harmonics, which is typical of the interplay between images of darkness and light that dramatises the whole cycle.
At this Easter season, British and Irish leaders have followed the admonition of Luke to give light to them who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and to guide their feet into the way of peace.
There was no moon, and the stars were high and faint, but the rails shone clear and far, as if they were gathering, out of the poverty of darkness, the light that had been scattered in the gloom.
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
After only a few minutes, the lights of the Lamanai Outpost faded into velvety darkness and the only light was a brilliant shaft from the halogen lamp at the front of the boat.
She was at the edge of darkness or the edge of light, depending upon which way you were going.
The aim of the constitution is to shed light on the darkness.
In the case of the Argus II, the bionic eye or more accurately, the artificial retina, will turn darkness into light through a system comprised of electronics in the eye and wearable technology which wirelessly transmits a signal to the implant in the eye that lets the patient see again.
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Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others.
This generation is the flame, the light which will keep this country burning bright in the darkness of an uncertain world.
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When the Nets began playing at the Barclays, it was obvious that the team had decided to do something dramatic with lighting, which was to brightly light the herringbone basketball court and keep the rest of the place in darkness.
It was in the darkness of the city's puppet theatre that the Light came.
In these times of financial uncertainty, this helps provide some much needed light in the darkness allowing the community to have something positive to focus on.
"The overall effect is not going to be turning a light switch off" and banishing the entire US to darkness come the stroke of midnight, says Memo Diriker, director of the European-American Business Institute at Salisbury University.
The waterfall is the light, but at the Cave of the Winds, to see it you pass through darkness.
It may not be all darkness for Abercrombie, however, as some analysts are still seeing a ray of light in the company, which was once lauded for an extraordinary brand and product mix.
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