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This week, I went looking for darkness.
For the past several days, I have been reporting for The Times in Western Australia with the photojournalist Matthew Abbott. Western Australia is the country’s largest and least populated state, with around 2.7 million people scattered across an area the size of Alaska, California and Texas combined. More than three-fourths of its residents live in Perth, the state capital.
Australians from other states know Western Australia for its remarkable wealth of natural resources, including iron ore, natural gas, gold, alumina and nickel. But there is another natural resource that Western Australia, huge and empty, has in abundance: pristine dark sky.
Darkness seems like something that ought to be easy to find, lingering outside the back door late at night, or creeping up to…
Source from The New York Times, published on 2023-04-21 03:01:10.