![]() “Misdirected and excessive lighting are the main cause of sky glow and light pollution,” says Chip Harrison, park manager for Cherry Springs State Park in Pennsylvania, one of the IDA’s certified Dark Sky Parks. The IDA is a non-profit organization fighting against light pollution to preserve the quality of the night sky. The International Dark Sky Association (IDA) recently added the Grand Canyon National Park to its certified list, a process that took nearly three years and involved the park converting most of its 5,000 light fixtures to “dark-sky compliant.” Thankfully, there’s a ready-made list of destinations around the world under dark skies that offer the best chances to spot meteors, see stars and ponder constellations. A study in 2016 in Science Advances found a majority of US and European citizens could not see the Milky Way at night because of all the artificial light. ![]() ![]() We know the earliest people in recorded history were fascinated with space, and that continues into our modern era.Īnd while we have technologies to study the heavens they probably couldn’t even dream of, those earlier observers did have one edge: No light pollution. ![]()
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