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Sep 23, 2023

The loss of dark skies is so painful, astronomers coined a new term for it

Posted by in categories: climatology, space, sustainability

Humanity is slowly losing access to the night sky, and astronomers have invented a new term to describe the pain associated with this loss: “noctalgia,” meaning “sky grief.”

Along with our propensity for polluting air and water and the massive amounts of carbon we’re dumping into the atmosphere to trigger climate change, we have created another kind of pollution: light pollution.

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