✨🔭 The night sky is rapidly getting brighter
Artificial lighting that escapes into the sky causes it to glow, preventing humans and animals from seeing the #stars. Citizen scientists reported global rapid reductions in the visibility of stars. Trends in the data showed that the average night sky got brighter by 9.6% per year from 2011 to 2022, which is equivalent to doubling the sky brightness every 8 years.
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in reply to Open Science ✅ • • •One of my favorite childhood memories is lying out on the lawn with my Dad, identifying stars and constellations. One of my favorite memories as an adult is my husband and lying on the lawn with our daughters, "ooohing" and "aaahing" at a meteor shower.
How many kids & parents are going to miss out on this? It makes me think of Isaac Asimov's "Nightfall" - will there eventually be places where people deny stars and meteors even exist?
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Kevin Karhan
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#LightPollution is so extreme these days, I only managed to see the milky way at night in the middle of the Red Sea almost a decade ago.
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