It's nice to just be out of the urban jungle once in a while and experience the beauty of nature especially the picturesque landscape of the night sky gleaming with all the stars and celestial objects that decorate it.
In 2017, a multinational research team found that the Earth had gotten brighter at a rate of about 2 percent each year between 2012 and 2016.
Increasingly, denizens of the developed world do not know what Paul Bogard, author of “The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light,” calls “a wild sky” — the brilliant stars seen over Zion National Park in Utah, or Assateague Island National Seashore in Maryland and Virginia, or Death Valley, California.
In addition to obscuring an essential aspect of the natural world, light pollution has been shown to disrupt normal sleep-wake cycles in humans and animals alike and to disorient wildlife in detrimental ways.
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My parents live in the boonies. The night sky is amazing when it's not cloudy or rainy (PNW).
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