Hiding in our brightest skies
WASHINGTON — Every year the night sky gets brighter and the stars dimmer.A new study analyzing data from more than 50,000 amateur stargazers finds that artificial lighting makes the night sky 10% brighter each year.That's a much faster rate of change than scientists had previously estimated by looking at satellite data. The research, which includes data from 2011 to 2022, is published Thursday in the journal Science.“We are losing, year after year, the possibility of seeing the stars,” said Fabio Falchi, a physicist at the University of Santiago de Compostela, who was not involved in the study.“If you can still…
