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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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[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

I haven't seen the Milky Way for maybe 15-years. Even at my camp in the boondocks, nada. You have to really get out there, can't imagine where I would go from NW FL.

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Drive up to West Virginia? Seriously, I'm looking at a light pollution map and it's crazy. I'm gonna drive out west of Kerrville, TX and take a gander.

[-] XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The dark spot in WV might be one of the uninhabited regions featuring a radio telescope facility. Get close enough and they'll start hunting you down for cell phone noise!

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