{"id":12764,"date":"2016-06-17T11:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12764"},"modified":"2016-06-14T01:43:35","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T05:43:35","slug":"light-pollution-hides-the-milky-way-from-a-third-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12764","title":{"rendered":"Light pollution hides the Milky Way from a third of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

A veil of light is blanking out the night sky\u00a0for more and more of the world’s\u00a0population:\u00a0Milky Way Can No Longer Be Seen By One-Third of Humanity Because of Light Pollution –\u00a0Nature World News<\/a><\/p>\n

The atlas shows that more than 80 percent of the world and more than 99 percent of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies. Light pollution is most evident in developed countries, where the ubiquitous presence of artificial lights has created a luminous fog that blots out the stars and constellations once visible during the night.<\/em><\/p>\n

“We’ve got whole generations of people in the United States who have never seen the Milky Way,” Chris Elvidge of the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and co-author of the study said in a report published in Science Daily<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It’s a big part of our connection to the cosmos – and it’s been lost,” he added.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here are maps of light pollution: \u00a0The new world atlas of artificial night sky brightness –\u00a0Science Advances<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are some places with the best dark skys:\u00a0Space Tourism on Earth: The 7 Dark Sky Reserves to Visit Right Now –\u00a0Inverse<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A veil of light is blanking out the night sky\u00a0for more and more of the world’s\u00a0population:\u00a0Milky Way Can No Longer Be Seen By One-Third of Humanity Because of Light Pollution –\u00a0Nature World News The atlas shows that more than 80 percent of the world and more than 99 percent of the U.S. and European populations … Continue reading Light pollution hides the Milky Way from a third of humanity<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-3jS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7040,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7040","url_meta":{"origin":12764,"position":0},"title":"Video: A 360 degree view of the Milky Way from Spitzer space telescope","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope\u00a0provides\u00a0a \u00a0360 degree view in the infrared of our Milky Way galaxy :\u00a0NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips - NASA STS\u00a0- http:\/\/youtu.be\/AZk0IQ9pFOU Caption: This video shows a continually-looping infrared view of our Milky Way galaxy, as seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.\u00a0The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Astronomy"","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/AZk0IQ9pFOU\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":11563,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11563","url_meta":{"origin":12764,"position":1},"title":"ESO: The dark Coalsack Nebula waits for new stars to light it up","author":"TopSpacer","date":"October 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"ESO\u00a0releases its latest astronomical findings: A Cosmic Sackful of Black Coal Dark smudges almost block out a rich star field in this new image captured by the Wide Field Imager camera, installed on the MPG\/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile. 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