vol. 3 issue 13
‘In the cities and suburbs where we no longer can see the night as it truly is, we take for granted that we shine brightest in the universe, when that’s just not so.’
Greetings,
Growing up in the rural South, I wouldn’t have known to hold precious and dear what at the time I took for granted: digging for crawdads (and keeping an eye out for gators), tire swings over rivers, and dark skies at night while an owl hooted somewhere nearby. Least of all, why would I ever have thought the Milky Way would disappear?
But it has.
Thanks to the wonton use of electricity at night, there are so few places left on earth where we can see just a portion of the stars at night, and even fewer where we can see our own galaxy. I’ve been thinking about this since we’re coming up on the best time of year to actually see the Milky Way, provided you can access an area where the skies are in fact dark enough to do so.
Here’s a link to an atlas o…
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