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Night Skies - With the rapid loss of dark skies to light pollution , Downeast Maine has some of the last pristine , star-filled night skies in the eastern United States . It is estimated that 99 percent of residents of the United States and Europe live under light polluted skies and nearly 80 percent of the world ’ s population experiences skyglow at night .
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