Dreamy Outlook over Australia
The Fading Milky Way
Light pollution is a growing environmental problem that threatens to erase the night sky before its time. A recent study revealed that perhaps two-thirds of the world's population can no longer look upwards at night and see the Milky Way—a hazy swath of stars that on warm summer nights spans the sky from horizon to horizon.
The Milky Way is dimming, not because the end of the Universe is near, but rather as a result of light pollution: the inadvertent illumination of the atmosphere from street lights, outdoor advertising, homes, schools, airports and other sources. Every night billions of bulbs send their energy skyward where microscopic bits of matter—air molecules, airborne dust, and water vapor droplets—reflect much of the wasted light back to Earth.
(Source: NASA)
Learn more:
International Dark-Sky Association
https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution
Globe at Night
Night Sky Network (NASA JPL)
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
Image Credit & Copyright: Ian Inverarity
Image Release Date: February 4, 2022
Technical details: "A lighting and filter test shot that I decided to process, 3 shot vertical panorama, Sigma 28mm lens at f/1.4, ISO 3200, 13 seconds, Z9, stitched and processed in Photoshop. Video light for foreground lighting, diffuse filter on lens for star effects."
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