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- How does the sky turn dark at night? https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240228.html 47 comments
- Dark Night Skies https://susam.in/wiki/dark-night-skies.html 2 comments
- Olbers’ Paradox: Why Is the Sky Dark at Night? (2000) http://www.amnh.org/education/resources/rfl/web/essaybooks/cosmic/cs_paradox.html 143 comments
- Why is the night sky dark? https://www.popsci.com/why-night-sky-dark?dom=rss-default&src=syn 7 comments space
- Why is the Sky Dark at Night? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwtJC9_dXs 14 comments space
- Olbers' Paradox - Why Is The Night Sky Dark? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMAVpeaIJpw 4 comments space
- Why is the Night Sky Dark? It Turns Out That This Isn't Easy to Explain http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~imamura/123/lecture-5/olbers.html 21 comments science
- Darkness on the Edge of the Universe - Some day, the night sky as viewed from Earth will be completely absent of stars. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/opinion/16greene.html?pagewanted=2&hp 18 comments science
- Some 200 places around the world have now achieved Dark Sky status. Frankie Adkins explores the benefits nights without light pollution can bring. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220614-the-crusade-for-darker-night-skies 29 comments futurology
- How “stars” are helping the French keep the night sky dark: A voluntary program is encouraging towns to manage their lighting. https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/12/how-stars-are-helping-keep-the-french-keep-the-night-sky-dark/ 17 comments europe
- The Night Sky Will Never Be the Same // Elon Musk’s plan for worldwide internet has sent bright artificial, lights streaking through the dark https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/02/spacex-starlink-astronomy/606169/ 16 comments technology
- The race to reclaim the dark - Some 200 places around the world have now achieved Dark Sky status. Frankie Adkins explores the benefits nights without light pollution can bring. https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20220614-the-crusade-for-darker-night-skies 9 comments environment
- This device harnesses the cold night sky to generate electricity in the dark - A new device is an anti-solar panel, harvesting energy from the cold night sky. By harnessing the temperature difference between Earth and outer space. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/device-harnesses-cold-night-sky-generate-electricity-dark 19 comments worldnews
- A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. The two data releases from the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey cover 6.5% of the night sky. Astronomers will be able to use the data release to better map the 3D structure of the galaxy’s dust and stars. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aca594 4 comments science
- A new survey of the Milky Way galaxy has unveiled 3.3 billion celestial objects. The two data releases from the Dark Energy Camera Plane Survey cover 6.5% of the night sky. Astronomers will be able to use the data release to better map the 3D structure of the galaxy’s dust and stars. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/aca594 2 comments science
- The Geminid meteor shower peaks the night of December 13/14. And with absolutely no interference from the Moon, the maximum expected rate for a dark sky is about 150 meteors per hour. https://astronomy.com/news/sky-events/2020/12/get-ready-for-the-geminid-meteor-shower-2020 100 comments space
- The Geminid meteor shower peaks in just a few short days on the night of December 13/14. Under a dark sky, you can expect to spot up to about 120 meteors per hour, and each one will be zipping through our atmosphere at roughly 80,000 miles per hour. http://www.astronomy.com/observing/news/2018/12/the-geminid-meteor-shower-peaks-under-a-dark-sky-this-week 9 comments space