One of the biggest problems for ground-based astronomy today is

A. atmospheric pollution has significantly worsened the seeing.
B. light pollution makes it difficult to observe faint objects.
C. all the best mountains already have telescopes on them.
D. space-based observatories are making most of the observations.


Answer: B

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