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The Nature Park and the community of #Weißbach were designated as an International Dark Sky Park & Dark Sky Community by #DarkSky International: #Austria.

Search for #DarkSky particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment: https://lz.lbl.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/08/LZ_Preprint_260901_Dark_Matter_EFT_Nuclear_Recoil_Search_at_Higher_Energies.pdf -> LZ experiment sees surprising result in search for dark matter: https://www.llnl.gov/article/54886/lz-experiment-sees-surprising-result-search-dark-matter

The dome is on the #Eschenberg observatory in the International #DarkSky Reserve #BayerischerWald - the 1-meter telescope arrives in about a year: see https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/07/24/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-24-juli-2026/#Jul24 for the story and many links!