Stars in the night sky are disappearing from human sight at an “astonishing rate” due to rapidly growing light pollution, scientists have warned.
STARS IN THE night sky are disappearing from human sight at an “astonishing rate” due to rapidly growing light pollution, scientists have warned.
Dr Christopher Kyba, a researcher at the German Research Centre for Geosciences, said: “At this rate of change, a child born in a location where 250 stars were visible, would be able to see only about 100 by the time they turned 18.” For the study, Kyba and his team of researchers analysed more than 50,000 observations made by citizen scientists as part of the Globe at Night project run by the US National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab.They looked at observations submitted between 2011 and 2022, focusing on data from Europe and North America.
Kyba said: “This shows that existing satellites aren’t sufficient to study how Earth’s night is changing.”
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