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The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it (www.space.com)
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Given the harmful effects of light pollution, a pair of astronomers has coined a new term to help focus efforts to combat it. Their term, as reported in a brief paper in the preprint database arXiv and a letter to the journal Science, is "noctalgia." In general, it means "sky grief," and it captures the collective pain we are experiencing as we continue to lose access to the night sky.

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[โ€“] FluffyPotato@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my parents farm the night sky is perfectly visible. They live far from any town and there are no lights you can't just turn off so sometimes I just look at the sky when I'm visiting.

Plenty of places like this still in my country thankfully.

[โ€“] khalic@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately, even secluded towns suffer because of light diffusion in the atmosphere. The only places left where you can see it, the way it was before electric lights, are mountains and extremely far places (think middle of the ocean or the poles)