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I live in Europe, and I only have seen the milky way once while traveling. I really can't express how beautiful it is. You'd think those images on the internet with the purple glow are heavily edited, but that's really how it looks like. Light pollution is awful, and I hope we can turn it back so everybody can experience the beauty of space from their own back yard.
My wife was a born and raised big city girl. She never knew what a real night sky looked like outside of the 20 or so brightest objects you can see in the city. She was well travelled, but only to other cities. She has never even gone camping.
When we were dating, after discovering she had not seen a real night sky in her life, late one night I took her on a drive out to the outer edge of farm country. Not even close to actual dark sky, but way better than anything she had ever seen. It was a magical moment. She never knew you could see the milky way, let alone Andromeda with your eyes.
Imagine being a young adult woman and only ever having seen a handful of the brightest stars. Some boy you dig, but barely know gets all excited when the conversation turns to astronomy, which you know nothing about and aside from polite conversation with this boy, don't care about at all. He suddenly gets this cheshire cat's grin, whisks you into his car at 11pm on a Friday and drives 2 hours out into the country at 1am, on a whim.
You're tired and nervous. The drive is long enough for various weird scenarios to pop into your head, not all of them good. How well do you know this boy? He stops the car at a dead end dirt road without so much as a streetlight. Just farms and forest in the distance. Its a warm summer night. He turns off the car and gets out. It takes a few seconds for your eyes to adjust to the darkness after the headlights go out. He gets out of the car and opens the door for you. A cool gentle breeze blows on your face and you can hear crickets chirping. He holds both your hands warmly, gives you the biggest smile, looks deep into your eyes in a long silence. Eventually he says "Now look up". You follow his eyes as they turn skyward.
Then you see it all for the first time.
Married now for ~ 20 years, and while I've had more than my fair share of less than charming moments, she still says when I put in the effort, I can be devastatingly romantic.
Exactly, I saw the actual night sky once in my life when traveling and it was breathtaking, I cannot believe how people don't even know what we've given up. I also thought those nat geo / Nasa pictures were computer generated recreations, but you can actually see that with your naked eyes
I was born in the wilderness of Nordic Lappland, no cities at all anywhere near, small villages only, spread very sparsely across a lot of nothingness.
No light pollution at all. Our village didn’t even have street lights anywhere outside the local school vicinity (we never had more than 20 or so students in total, across all the elementary grades through pre to 1-6!). 300 residents total. Closest proper town was roughly 200km away.
Yet, I have never seen the Milky Way. I’ve seen plenty of stars, there’s always stars unless extremely cloudy. And we’d get auroras almost bi-daily throughout the polar winters. But no Milky Way. No purple to speak of.
I wonder if this is tied to the location within earth? Always had a clear sky, no artificial lights polluting it even from afar. No cities, no smogs of any kind. But never did see purple or the Milky Way. In winters we also have literal months when the sun doesn’t even rise properly at all, just night all the time. So sky is very visible.
This is absolutely confusing to me, are you supposed to see the Milky Way with clear skies 😔?
Yeah, I live in the middle of that big bright spot. I've got no idea what the milky way looks like.
Find a dark place near you:
https://darksky.org/what-we-do/international-dark-sky-places/all-places/
There's one in all England and it's somehow down south near London
Try to zoom in more. The (3) near London is actually three different places far from London.
There's obviously also many other dark places. This map only shows the designated dark places.