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Description: Describes many aspects of light pollution, including ecology, human health, regulation, astronomy, and economics.
Our Far-flung Correspondents: The Dark Side : The New Yorker A time-exposure photograph of the Milky Way over the New Mexico desert. The word “galaxy†comes from the Greek for milk. In 1610, Galileo Galilei published a small book describing astronomical observations that he had made of the skies above Padua. His homemade telescopes had less magnifying and resolving power than most beginners’ telescopes sold today, yet with them he made astonishing discoveries: that the moon has mountains and other topographical features; that Jupiter is orbited by satellites, which he called planets; and that the Milky Way is made up of individual stars. It may seem strange that this last observation could have surprised anyone, but in Galileo’s time people assumed that the Milky Way must be some kind of continuous substance. It truly resembled a streak of spilled liquid—our word “galaxy†comes from the Greek for milk—and it was so bright that it cast shadows on the ground (as did Jupiter and Venus). Today, by contrast, most Americans are unable to see the Milky Way in the sky above the place where they live, and those who can see it are sometimes baffled by its name.
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| Page title: | Our Far-flung Correspondents: The Dark Side : The New Yorker |
| Keywords: | Light Pollution, Stargazing, International Dark-Sky Association (I.D.A.), Stars, Bortle Dark-Sky Scale, Crawford, David L., Bortle, John E., Tucson, Arizona, Streetlamps, Streetlights, Daniel, Ken, Circadian Rhythms, Cancer, Schernhammer, Eva, Schulmeister, Karl, Insects, Birds, Environment, Air Pollution,Artificial Light, Bryce Canyon National Park, Moore, Chad, Utah, Natural Bridges National Monument, Astronomy, Darkness, Milky Way |
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