Light Pollution: "Come to the Dark Side! We Have Stars!" | ESO

Light Pollution: "Come to the Dark Side! We Have Stars!" | ESO

Chasing Starlight 8: Perhaps you did not know, but astronomers are fighting for the dark side. For them, the darkest places on Earth aren’t filled with evil and aggression, just uninterrupted views of the cosmos. Unfortunately, such places are under threat from light pollution.

Learn more:

International Dark-Sky Association

https://www.darksky.org/light-pollution

Globe at Night

https://www.globeatnight.org

Night Sky Network (NASA/JPL)

https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Credit:

Directed by: Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser, Martin Wallner

Hosted by: Suzanna Randall 

Written by: Claudia Sciarma, Thomas Howarth, Bárbara Ferreira

Editing: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calçada

Videography: Angelos Tsaousis

Footage and photos: Star Wars (1977), Directed: George Lucas; Written: George Lucas; Produced: Gary Kurtz; Production company: Lucasfilm Ltd.; Distributed: 20th Century-Fox, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, ESA, NASA, SpaceX, Delft Technical University/M. Langbroek, Victoria Girgis/Lowell Observatory, P. Horálek, C. Malin, NSF’s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research, foto-webcam.eu, Laboratory/CTIO/AURA/DELVE

Animations & Infographics:  Luis Calçada, Martin Kornmesser

Web and technical support: Gurvan Bazin and Raquel Yumi Shida

Scientific consultancy: Andy Williams, Olivier Hainaut, Mariya Lyubenova

Filming Locations: ESO Supernova 

Produced by ESO, the European Southern Observatory (eso.org)

Duration: 7 minutes, 44 seconds

Release Date: Feb. 3, 2024  

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