Into the night: New meter atop SE's Rhodes Hall tracks light pollution, global warming

Wednesday, November 6, 2019 ~ Updated 10:28 PM

As if something from the intergalactic classic “Star Wars” landed on the rooftop of Southeast Missouri State University’s Rhodes Hall, a device — nicknamed “PO,” after the film series’ character Poe Dameron — observes the amount of light pollution in the sky, playing into a large-scale project assessing the possible effects of global warming: The Missouri Sky Quality Meter Program.

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